This City is Paying Out Reparations to Black Folks…Guess Who’s Trying to Stop It

Three years ago, it was reported that the Evanston City Council voted to launch the first phase of a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb. William Stanford Davis on Season 3 of ‘Abbott Elementary’ Off English Initially, residents who qualified for the program would receive a $25,000 grant to repair or buy a home, but the program later allowed Black residents to receive the money in a cash payment. The $20 million reparations program was only open to Black people who lived in the city or could prove that they had Black ancestors that lived in Evanston between 1919 and1969. Advertisement But after paying out nearly $5 million to 193 Black people, non-Black residents of the Chicago suburb are trying to end the program entirely. According to the Washington Post, Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the city claiming that the reparations program discriminated against non-Black residents. Advertisement This particular lawsuit (along with many others) received a lot of traction due to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to restrict race-based affirmative action in higher education. More from the Washington Post: “This program redistributes tax dollars based on race,” said Tom Fitton,...