NC City Votes to Approve Reparations & Says Healthcare Workers Are Racist

A group of people who never owned slaves have agreed to give reparations to a group of people who were never subjected to the horrors of slavery.

A city in North Carolina voted unanimously to approve reparation benefits to black citizens of the community.

They also included a resolution in the policy that claims healthcare workers are racist.

Jon Brown reports:

The city council of Asheville, North Carolina, voted unanimously on Tuesday night to apologize for the city’s role in historic discrimination against its black citizens, and offer reparations for their descendants.

According to The Asheville Citizen-Times, the resolution, titled “Resolution Supporting Community Reparations For Black Asheville,” was passed 7-0 and does not offer direct payments, but will instead seek to rectify historical disparities among the city’s black community with investment-based solutions.

Establishing as its basis their unjust enslavement, segregation, and imprisonment, the resolution goes on to list alleged longstanding discrimination against Asheville’s black citizens, such as being denied housing because of “racist practices in the private realty market,” facing impoverishment because of “discriminatory wages paid in every sector of the local economy regardless of credentials and experience,” and failing in schools because of “discriminatory disciplinary practices” throughout western North Carolina.

The resolution also claims black people die in larger numbers because of discrimination from medical professionals who allegedly give them “inadequate, if not detrimental, health care as exemplified by disproportionate morbidities and mortality rates that result from the generational trauma of systemic racism[.]”

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 01: Activists stage a protest to mark the National Reparations Day outside the residence of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) July 1, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Activists held a “First Amendment Speak-out” in protest of McConnell’s “offensive and dismissive remarks on reparations.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)