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Detroiters don't want task forces, Black History Month panels (eu.freep.com)

submitted 9 months ago by raoulraoul@midwest.social to c/detroit@midwest.social

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Ms Charity Dean, president and CEO of the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance, in her letter to the Editors at The Freep, has this to say…

Our city is nearly 80% Black, I kept finding myself saying — we don’t want no panels.[…] We want position. We want a shift in intentionally created power dynamics that have left Black people behind. We want economic freedom.

Last year, during Black History Month of course, City Council President Mary Sheffield announced a Reparations Taskforce. It’s been a year and members of the taskforce continue to resign as they are seeing it for what it is — another opportunity to talk. When in actuality, reparations can come in many forms. At the City Council table, there's the opportunity to actually put restorative policies in place. No task force needed. We could just do.

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