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Chicago's mayor plans reparations task force. I'm on the South Side and I've got loads of questions
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It’s almost like the last 60 years did not exist for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. But they did for us. I know because I'm in a neighborhood on the South Side.
Pastor Corey Brooks, known as the "Rooftop Pastor," is the founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), the church's local mission. He gained national attention for his 94-day and 343-day rooftop vigils to transform the notorious "O-Block," once known as Chicago's most dangerous block, into #OpportunityBlock. Learn more at ProjectHOOD.org.
These questions entered my mind as I read the recent news that Mayor Johnson committed $500,000 toward a "Reparations Task Force to develop a Black Reparations Agenda." His executive order states that the nation and city "perpetuated, condoned, profited and benefited" from slavery and Jim Crow policies from 1877 to 1963. He blamed these polices for racial disparities in "life expectancy, unemployment, homeownership rates, home value, incarceration, and more."