The Newark City Council on Wednesday approved a resolution that advances the cause of reparations for African Americans in New Jersey, urging state lawmakers to create a task force to study the issue.
“examine the lingering negative effects of slavery on living African-Americans and on society in New Jersey” and “make recommendations for what remedies should be awarded.”
Jean-Pierre Brutus, senior counsel with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a group that has helped lead a “Reparations: Say the Word” campaign, called the vote “wonderful news” and said the movement would help address long-standing racial inequities that stem from a history of slavery and structural racism in the state.to abandon the practice of slavery, and initially rejected the 13th Amendment, which permanently abolished slavery at the end of the Civil War.
“New Jersey has one of the largest racial wealth gaps in the country,” he said. The median white household wealth in New Jersey,New Jersey has one of the largest racial wealth gaps in the countryNewark Mayor Ras Baraka joined the Council’s hearing to voice support for the resolution, having long supported reparations.in an interview with Vlad TV that any task force would have to consider various forms of reparations, “in terms of education, in terms of cash payments, in terms of tax credits.
Previous efforts in the Garden State to advance the issue failed to gain traction. Nationwide, there has been a new push, fueled in part by the social reckoning sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd during an arrest by police in Minneapolis.
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