Boston State Rep Candidate Supports Reparations For Slavery
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By Tom Joyce | August 26, 2024, 16:01 EDT
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Should the descendants of African-American slaves receive reparations?
A state representative candidate in Boston thinks so.
Sam Pierce, a Democrat from Dorchester, is running for state representative in the Sixth Suffolk District, primarying incumbent State Representative Russell Holmes (D-Mattapan)
Pierce is a commissioner on the Boston People’s Reparations Commission, according to the organization’s web site. It’s a private organization with more than 40 commissioners that advocates for reparations for the descendants of African-American slaves in Boston.
Here is a description of the organization from its web site:
We are committed to a reparations strategy in Boston that emphasizes civic power, pedagogy (civic literacy) and the purposeful development of existing and future leadership. A robust reparations outcome in Boston is our ultimate goal. Our actions over the next three years and beyond will include: continuous community meetings, organizing based on praxis (practice), collective action and civic reorganization that support the capabilities of volunteers and community residents, especially within Boston’s Black communities. Social and traditional media utilizations also become means toward our effectiveness.
Seventy community volunteer commissioners lead this project.
THE ROLE OF EACH COMMISSIONER IS TO BRING MORE PEOPLE...
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