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The Chicago City Council voted (8 votes to one) to distribute $ 400,000 to black families, becoming the first US state to compensate for discrimination against them, according to local media.
Under the vote, each family in the state would receive $ 25,000 for a home repair or a down payment on the property.
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The compensation will come from social donations and a 3% tax levied on cannabis sales for entertainment purposes (this is permitted under local laws).
Residents eligible to receive compensation must have lived or were the descendants of a person of African descent who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969 and suffered discrimination due to the city’s racist laws, policies or practices against residents of African descent.
Alderman Row Simmons, who proposed the program that was approved in 2019, said that compensation groups provided free legal aid when the compensation program was challenged in court. Due to anti-black housing policies. “
In turn, a social group expressed its opposition to the method of implementing the program’s plan, stressing on the page “Evanston refuses compensation” on “Facebook” that institutions that carry a historical racist character, such as banks and institutions, and other people will benefit from this plan.
This group called on the local authorities to launch a name other than compensation for these financial transfers, and to pay these funds directly to citizens of African descent without bank intermediation.
Hundreds of communities and organizations across the country are considering providing compensation to black people. They range from California to cities like Amherst, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, Asheville, North Carolina and Iowa City, Iowa.
Source: Associated Press, agencies
