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W-N-U-R-89.3 F.M. Chicago Sound Experiment, but in Evanston, which is just

across the northern border of Chicago, recently Evanston made history by becoming the

first municipality in the United States to engage in a program of reparations meant to fix the city's long history of racial discrimination and help give immediate and direct assistance to those within the black community.

Is it going to undo centuries of slavery or the history of the United States, which from the very beginning, has had structural and institutional racism?

Well, no. But supporters see it as a first step as something that can be done right now.

Immediately, as the federal government has yet to implement a

reparations program and who knows when that will happen or if it ever will or what

form that will take. One of the problems with reparations proposals has always been where to get the funds as the US tax system is regressive and puts the largest burden on the poorest citizens

Using taxes would likely put the burden upon people of color, including black residents in Evanston.

So the question has always been who will pay for reparations.

Well, back in the year 2000, when members of the U.S. Congress began talking about the possibility of

reparations, the source of funding was uncertain. However, with recreational

marijuana dispensaries suddenly places like Evanston had a new revenue stream from which

they could get resources but many advocates of reparations do not see

Evanston's program as real reparations as it is not a universal program for all black residents that's just a cash

payout so they can do with that money whatever they want. They fear that if

it if little gets done because of the programs modest size,

detractors of reparations will point to the suburb as proof of reparations not working

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