On Monday of this week, the City Council of Evanston, Illinois voted to do something that

no other American city has ever done.

The Council's nine representatives voted to begin spending $10 million over the next

10 years on reparations.

Making money available to the city's black residents and their descendants to compensate

for the lingering effects of slavery and discrimination.

On 8-1 vote, the Evanston City Council approved a dosage.

Mayor Steve Hagridi announced the final vote.

27 authorizing the implementation of the Evanston local reparations.

Restore housing program.

A little later in the meeting, one representative noted their vote was already national news.

My 28-year-old son texted me a screenshot within a minute of when we voted from the Washington

Post that we had just passed reparations.

So it was the vote that's being heard across the country.

But you may have noticed that vote was 8-1.

One person voted against the plan.

It's another way I feel like to manage black folk, right, to save for black people.

We know what's best for you.

We're going to do this on your behalf.

Through this, reparations for black Americans are not a new idea.

In one city, they are a new reality.

But not everyone agrees about what just compensation really looks like.

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