Some Black Chicagoans are saying they’re all in on reparations, calling for the local and federal government to take action to redress slavery and other historical wrongs in one of the most hot-button topics of debate in modern America.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has launched a community engagement effort called “Repair Chicago” to gather experiences of harm of Black Chicagoans as part of an effort to implement reparations.
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At Kennedy King College’s event discussing reparations, ADCRC Chair Marvin Slaughter, Jr. said that “seven quadrillion dollars” were contributed to the U.S. by slave labor.
The “seven quadrillion” figure comes from missing wages for 24 hours a day for enslaved people since they “had no freedom of time,” Slaughter told Fox News Digital, citing a study he conducted in 2022.
The ADCRC in March released a report laying out what it called the state’s history of harms against Black Illinoans, described as its “first comprehensive, evidence-based” report examining “how slavery and its vestiges produce historical harms and continue to generate inequities for Black Illinoisans.”
Dr. Daniel Davis, a faculty member at Kennedy King College’s social science department who teaches African American studies, said cash is necessary, but reparations is bigger than that.
“So some people think we’re only asking for a big check. No, a cash component is necessary as part of the package, part of a compensation, along with maybe home loan help, down payment on homes, tax breaks, education breaks for funding,” Davis told Fox News Digital.
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