A conservative watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois city that recently announced plans to pay out reparations to black residents.
The Reparations Committee of Evanston, Illinois,announcedlast week that it was moving forward with a plan to pay out sizable reparations to black residents.
In total, $1.1 million would be doled out, amounting to $25,000 payments to 44 individuals.
The 44 individuals are descendants of people who claimed that they experienced housing discrimination in Evanston between 1919 and 1969.
Given how touchy a subject reparation payments can be, this decision engendered a lot of critical discourse.
It also engendered a lawsuit, according toFox News.
Judicial Watch, the aforementioned watchdog, has officially filed a complaint in response to these reparations moving forward.
“There’s a right way and a wrong way to do them,” Michael Bekesha, a senior attorney at Judicial Watch, said. “So reparations are to repair. And so we have provided in this country reparations in the past when somebody has been wronged by the government, and we try to make that person whole.”
He further noted, “The reparations programs that you’re seeing around the country that are being talked about aren’t that. They are just entirely giving money, usually to Black residents solely on the basis of race.
“And I mean, that’s just problematic.”
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