<p>The City of Atlanta is taking steps towards offering reparations to its black residents, reviving a far-Left policy idea popular during the Biden administration.</p>
<p>The Atlanta City Council voted last week to appoint members to its reparations commission, a critical first step to enact its <a href="https://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/4335/175?backlist=%2F">resolution</a> to research the &#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Atlanta’s historical role in the legal discrimination of African American residents.&#8221; </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once fault is determined, the commission will then &#8220;recommend potential remedies to address the resulting economic, educational, health and social disparities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Atlanta Reparations Commission has yet to specify who would be eligible for reparations or what amount of compensation they would receive. California&#8217;s </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report">reparations committee</a></span> determined in 2023 that &#8220;only descendants of either an enslaved African American in the United States, or a free African American living in the United States prior to 1900&#8221; would be considered eligible for compensation. That plan is projected to cost California <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reparations-could-cost-california-more-than-800-billion-economists-estimate?utm_source=chatgpt.com">more than $800 billion</a>.</p>
<p>Reparations became a hot topic in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, and the idea gathered steam under President Joe Biden. But shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders terminating &#8220;<strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and &#8216;diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility&#8217; (DEIA) mandates, policies programs, preferences and activities in the Federal Government.&#8221;</span></strong></p>
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<p>That seems to have largely taken the wind out of reparations&#8217; sails — until now.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November 2023, Councilman Michael Bond initially proposed the Atlanta Reparations Task Force, which the entire city council then voted to create. </span>Bond serves alongside civil rights attorney Eshé Collins and Liliana Bakhtiari, &#8220;who made history as Atlanta&#8217;s first nonbinary councilmember and Georgia&#8217;s first out queer Muslim elected to office.&#8221;</p>
<p>Council President Doug Shipman <span style="font-weight: 400;">was previously the CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center. Under his <a href="https://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/council-members/council-president-doug-shipman#ad-image-10">leadership</a>, &#8220;the Arts Center embraced and featured artists of all backgrounds enabling them with equal access, and the ability to prosper in the ever-growing Georgia arts industry.&#8221; </span></p>
<p>While the city council focuses on its reparations committee, crime continues to grow in various parts of the broader Atlanta metropolitan area, <a href="https://gbi.georgia.gov/services/crime-statistics">according</a> to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported in 2024 that the greater Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta metro area accounted for more than half of all reported crimes in the entire state, including </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">440 murders, 1,605 rapes, 2,649 robberies, and 12,482 aggravated assaults, according to the <a href="https://gbi.georgia.gov/services/crime-statistics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia Bureau of Investigation</a>.</span></p>

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