REPARATIONS UNITED WANTS EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR REPARATIONS
Kamm Howard is the Director of Reparations United, an organization that is pushing for an Executive Order for Reparations, as well as a Commission on Reparations. PHOTO PROVIDED BY MELANIE BROWN.
BY TIA CAROL JONES
the mission to educate and inform people about the
central points to the movement for reparations. The
organization’s founder, Kamm Howard, realized the
movement for reparations was disjointed and major
contentions developed.
Howard believes an Executive Order, signed by President Joe Biden, is the best way for the type of redress African Americans, who are the descendants of the enslaved, to receive reparations. But, he does support those on the local level who also are championing reparations.
is more than a compensatory measure. It also has to rectify and correct past wrongs, stop existing wrongs, it has to deal with the existing historical trauma descendants of the enslaved are experiencing, as well as the way help is positioned in the United States. He believes even those conversations before creating a commission is counterproductive.
of Evanston’s 5th Ward, proposed a local reparations
fund, which would direct sales tax revenue collected
from recreational marijuana purchases, to establish
the fund. The measure was approved in Evanston
and it became the first municipally-funded reparations
legislation, with disbursements beginning in January 2022. Rue Simmons went on to become the Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair, a national not-for-profit organization that advises on best practices for reparations.
a four-part plan for reparations. It included a Reparations Commission, which would look into the history of harms done to Black Chicagoans and craft remedies to address those harms; an office of Black Americans, which would look at economic development; a revised slavery disclosure ordinance, which would mandate companies doing business in the city to disclose their complicity in slavery and commit to a redress fund; and basic income program centered to moving young people engaged in crime and violence to a formal economy, away from crime and violence.
On July 1st, Reparations United will host the Peace, Love & Reparations Concert and Unity Rally, in Los Angeles at Leimert Park.
visit reparationsunited.org.
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