Chicago’s mayor plans reparations task force. I’m on the South Side and I’ve got loads of questions

I have questions for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is proposing a reparations task force: where are the reparations for all Blacks killed in shootings in my neighborhood and elsewhere in the city?Where are the reparations for the city’s failure to produce adequate protection for its residents? Where are the reparations for the city’s failure to provide adequate schooling to inspire kids toward the American Dream instead of nihilistic violence? And where are the reparations for the city’s woke legal system that puts the interest of violent criminals above the interests of the city’s hardworking citizens?Most of all, why has he consistently ignored the efforts of Chicagoans like myself to better our neighborhoods through tried and true American principles — his administration refuses to support the massive Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center that I’m building on the South Side.These questions entered my mind as I read the recent news that Mayor Johnson committed $500,000 toward a “Reparations Task Force to develop a Black Reparations Agenda.” His executive order states that the nation and city “perpetuated, condoned, profited and benefited” from slavery and Jim Crow policies from 1877 to 1963. He blamed these polices for racial disparities in “life expectancy, unemployment,...