Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Louis Weathers, a retired postal worker and Korean War veteran, is among the initial beneficiaries of a program in Evanston, Ill., that pays Black residents reparations for discrimination and a lack of access to housing.⁠ ⁠ In 2019, the city of about 75,000 just north of Chicago committed to spend $10 million over 10 years on local reparations. Dozens of other municipalities across the U.S. have taken initial steps toward reparations, but Evanston is the only city that is delivering on its promise. ⁠ ⁠ Weathers remembers discrimination in many aspects of life in Evanston, including being excluded from the YMCA as a boy. He lived most of his life in a historically Black area and was only able to move to a predominantly white neighborhood in 1969 when laws started to change. Still, when he and his wife wanted to buy a house in a white neighborhood, he had to threaten that he would complain to the real-estate board if the agent didn’t allow them to sign a sales contract. ⁠ ⁠ By the end of this year, the program expects to have distributed $25,000 each to 140 mostly elderly residents like Weathers who were at least 18 and lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969, when the city passed a fair-housing ordinance. The payments can come in either vouchers or cash and are funded by marijuana and real-estate transfer taxes.⁠ ⁠ “I see it as like a test run for the whole country,” said Justin Hansford, a leading advocate for reparations at the federal and local level and head of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University.⁠ ⁠ Evanston’s modest program to compensate for decades of discrimination faced plenty of internal challenges and comes as grander efforts at reparations could be years off—if they come at all.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷: Oriana Koren for @wsjphotos」7月17日 0時00分