The Atlanta City Council voted last week to appoint members to its reparations commission, a critical first step to enact its resolution to research the “City of Atlanta’s historical role in the legal discrimination of African American residents.” Once fault is determined, the commission will then “recommend potential remedies to address the resulting economic, educational, health and social disparities.”
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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 “all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies programs, preferences and activities in the Federal Government.”
That seems to have largely taken the wind out of reparations’ sails — until now.
In November 2023, Councilman Michael Bond initially proposed the Atlanta Reparations Task Force, which the entire city council then voted to create. Bond serves alongside civil rights attorney Eshé Collins and Liliana Bakhtiari, “who made history as Atlanta’s first nonbinary councilmember and Georgia’s first out queer Muslim elected to office.”
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While the city council focuses on its reparations committee, crime continues to grow in various parts of the broader Atlanta metropolitan area, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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 440 murders, 1,605 rapes, 2,649 robberies, and 12,482 aggravated assaults, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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