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The slavery \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reparations?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E#reparations\u003C\/a\u003E task force will begin its work in October. Important move as it acknowledges non-slave states benefitted from the institution of slavery. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/u9vvK0j9VN\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/u9vvK0j9VN\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Dreisen Heath (@dreisenheath) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/dreisenheath\/status\/1294263461225127937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EAugust 14, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECity council members in Burlington, Vermont, voted unanimously to pass \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/burlington-city-council-creates-task-force-slavery-reparations\/3348422001\/\u0022\u003Ea reparations resolution\u003C\/a\u003E last week, joining cities like Asheville, North Carolina, and Providence, Rhode Island, in approving measures this year to address the enduring harms of slavery. Burlington, Vermont\u2019s most populous city, will convene a reparations task force starting in October to study the role that Vermont played in chattel slavery and come up with recommendations for reparations.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Vermont wasn\u2019t a slave state, Burlington officials and community members contend that the state benefited from slavery.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs Black labor was extracted through the institution of slavery in the south, wealth flowed into the hands of the northern elite,\u201d Rep. Brian Cina, a Vermont state legislator, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2020\/08\/13\/burlington-slavery-reparations-task-force-to-begin-work-this-fall\/\u0022\u003Etold WCAX\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWCAX reports that the task force\u2019s study will determine what reparations should look like, which differentiates it from Asheville\u2019s reparations resolution, which calls for community investments rather than direct payments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETyeastia Green, Burlington\u2019s director of racial equity, weighed in on the possibilities.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGreen says while there\u0027s no limit on what reparations could look like, she believes they will be substantial. \u0022I don\u0027t think it\u0027s appropriate to put a value on what it cost Black people in this country to be enslaved, what it cost them to lose heritage, to lose culture, what it cost them now to not be allowed in white spaces, still, now in 2020,\u0022 Green said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to the passage of the resolution,\u00a0the City of Burlington and the University of Vermont Medical Center last month \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/2020\/07\/16\/burlington-vermont-mayor-organizations-declare-racism-public-health-emergency\/5451842002\/\u0022\u003Edeclared\u00a0racism a public health emergency\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/tag\/reparations-united-states\u0022\u003ERead more about the case and fight for repations in the United States \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u00a0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]