NYC votes for reparations task force: Letters to the Editor

The Issue: New York City lawmakers voting on a bill to study potential compensation for slavery reparations. It’s a shame that the people voted in to protect and serve New York are destroying it with their ridiculous bills (“Reparations bid wins,” Sept. 13). The City Council needs an immediate overhaul. Slavery ended over 200 years ago in New York, and yet councilmembers want to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to hand out free money. Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-SI) put it best: “If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave, I’d be happy to consider it. But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause.” Lance Lovejoy Explore More Maspeth The premise behind this reparations task-force bill is totally absurd. Like other New Yorkers, some African-Americans do very well, and others don’t. If the council really wants to address the issue, they should look at the elephant in the room — our failing education system. If New York had school choice and vouchers, it would give African-American parents the opportunity to remove their child from a failing school and place them in one where they...