Philly reparations panel led by DJ who uses role to hawk club tickets

By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 08:12 EDT, 24 May 2024 | Updated: 08:16 EDT, 24 May 2024 Members of Philadelphia’s new slavery reparations commission talked up their mission at a launch this week, vowing to ‘get to work’ on improving schools and housing for black residents. But a DailyMail.com investigation has exposed big flaws in the new, nine-member panel. The group’s co-chair, Rashaun Williams, is already using his new role to promote his Afro-House club nights, where he performs as DJ Reezey. And the panel’s legal chief, Jackie Newsome, has strong feelings against white people, her tweets suggest. She slams their ‘white fragility’ and likens them to ‘middle schoolers.’ In other posts, she controversially calls to ‘defund the police.’ The involvement of Williams and Newsome casts doubt on the panel’s credibility, and raises questions about whether it can help the city’s 1.6 million people navigate their complicated history. The task force and the city council have not commented on the posts. The revelations are just the latest example of problems in implementing reparations schemes, which gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 but are now floundering. Poll Do you support a federal...