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Mayor of St. Louis signs bill creating voluntary donation fund for slavery reparations
The Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, signed a bill this week creating a fund that individuals and companies can voluntarily contribute to that will ultimately be paid out as slavery reparations to the Black community in the city.
Mayor Tishaura O. Jones says the bill is a “first step” in the important process of issuing reparations to Black residents of St. Louis. The bill does not include measures for distributing the funds, but Jones says the bill starting the fund will be followed by future legislation that will deal with the payout of reparations.
Mayor Jones’ administration is committed to bringing community stakeholders and academics together to develop a plan for what reparations look like in St. Louis to reverse generational wrongs,” the mayor’s office said on Friday.
The bill allows residents and companies to voluntarily donate to the reparations fund by adding donations to their yearly property tax bills, or their quarterly water and refuse bills.
Jones’ office says creating the fund “is a first step on a topic that needs careful attention and deliberate, studied implementation.”
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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So how many Black-Americans are going to donate? Slavery in the US was seeded by a Black man sold as a slave in Africa who was treated as an indentured servant in what became the US, who then went to court keep another Black man as a slave. Many Blacks owned slaves in the US and considered it normal. This is just another excuse to avoid dealing with the real problems the Black communities have today which they caused and seeded in the 1970s. Slavery from the pre-1860s has nothing to do with the problems today in the US. People need to open their eyes and look at the real history and causes of problems.