from WND:

‘Hundreds of years of black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today’

City-council members in Asheville, North Carolina, voted 7-0 to apologize to blacks residents and pay “reparations.”

The complicated resolution condemns the enslavement, segregation and incarceration of blacks over the generations. It then resolves to “make amends” and calls on the state of North Carolina and the federal government to “provide funding for reparations at the state and national levels.”

For Asheville’s part, the city manager is directed to make recommendations to address the “creation of generational wealth.”

And there is a plan to create a commission to figure out how to “make significant progress toward repairing the damage caused by public and private systemic racism.”

The “budgetary” priorities could include, among other things, “increasing minority homeownership and access to other affordable housing, increasing minority business ownership and career opportunities, strategies to grow equity and generational wealth, closing the gaps in health care, education, employment and pay.”

Fox News reported there will be no “direct cash payments” as part of the program.

Councilwoman Shaneika Smith said council members had received public comment from opponents of the resolution.

She said slavery “is this institution that serves as the starting point for the building of the strong economic floor for white America, while attempting to keep blacks subordinate forever to its progress.”

“Hundreds of years of black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today,” Councilman Keith Young said in the Fox News report.

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