The One High Point Commission announced this week that it will host an information session for the public in order to update local citizens about the commission’s plans for the city to “explore community reparations for the African American residents of the city.”
In recent years, some local governments across the country have been seriously exploring the once-fringe movement of attempting to use current public monetary resources to make reparations to the African American community as recompence for slavery and other societal injustices in this country over the centuries.
In High Point, the One High Point Commission is spearheading those efforts.
Some argue that reparations are an important step in moving past the country’s racist past while others consider the entire movement totally absurd since it’s no longer possible to provide recompense to those who actually suffered through slavery.
Though there are many aspects to the reparations discussion in America these days, some reparations advocates are pushing for direct monetary payouts to those whose ancestors were slaves or whose family wealth was negatively affected during the Jim Crow Era of American history.
In February of last year, the High Point City Council adopted a resolution that created the One High Point Commission to look into strategies for potential community reparations for the African American residents of the city. That Commission is charged with making a recommendation through a final report to the City Council.
On Tuesday, Aug. 15, the final recommendations regarding “restorative economic policies” will be presented. The session, which will be held in the High Point Theatre at 220 E. Commerce Ave., will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The One Commission includes two High Point City Council members, nine High Point residents, two NAACP representatives, and two High Point City residents who are non-voting alternates.
Registration for the August 15 information session is required. Those interested in attending can register by visiting the One High Point Commission page on the city’s website – or by using the following link: community-information-session-tickets.
Questions pertaining to the event can be directed to the Communications and Public Engagement Department’s Human Relations Division at 336-883-3124.
White people will come perform loose-leaf collection for them.
I now identify as a descendent of a slaves and a high point resident. Where’s my feee money
Then president Abraham Lincoln gave slaves reparations when he freed them! 50 acres and a mule among other things! You wanna do something good for high points descendants today? Get rid of the gangs that have moved into high point stealing, raping, killing folks including blacks and every other color!
No one alive now was ever a slave and no one alive now has ever owned a slave.
Does anyone have the good sense to bring this up?
So let me get this straight. This commission wants to take money from taxpayers, who have never owned slaves, and give it to people who were never slaves. And this makes sense how?
Two words for reparations BULL SH$$
Play that race card.
Got my popcorn ready for these comments. LMAO
People need to learn their history so they will know when they are being scammed by the crooked politicians in this county. History shows that there were also many white slaves before the civil war and actually and actually many blacks owned slaves themselves. There was also a movement where the slaves were giving 40 acres and a mule for restitution for been slaves. So when they make restitution to the people that are descendants of slaves I want my fair share also.
And I’m the descendant of coalminers who had little choice but to work underground 10 hours a day, were paid piecemeal, and who died prematurely of pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease).
So what?
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The City of High Point City Council members have lost their minds. What are they thinking. First, whoever wants reparations must prove that they, themselves, suffered a loss; not an ancestor, themselves. Being a descendant of someone who might have been hunted down by their own people and sold into slavery, is not enough to prove that an individual living today suffered from slavery. This idea is a nonstarter. Otherwise, reparations are merely another giveaway program. As far as Jim Crow, this was segregation. There was segregation without codifying. In some states, it was codified. Study the day-to-day lives of Blacks under segregation. Life was a struggle for Blacks and most Whites. Then, there is the cause of the War Between the States, which has been hijacked by those who have benefited by claiming that the War was only about slavery. That is a lie.
Since the 1960s, Blacks have benefited disproportionally from government programs designed to give Blacks a leg up to amend for segregation to the point that others have been discriminated against. Consider these federal programs as reparations. MLK, Jr. preached desegregation of public schools. Well, we have had desegregation since the 1950s. How are our desegregated schools working out? Whoever denies that our public schools’ students’ academic results are abysmal, deserves the likes of Skip Alston and Deena Hayes.
Shame on all members of High Point City Council.
Good thing for GSO tax payers, we have dumped multi millions of tax dollars into the International Civil Rights Museum, so we are good.
The stupidity never ends. I really hope the citizens are paying attention. Be sure and go downtown & show them a non-violent protest in exactly the same way they would if someone dared mention preserving a statue of our great ancestors who built this country!
If YOU can prove YOU were enslaved and are living today, fine, here’s a dollar that won’t buy much, and won’t give you your time back. At least the last four generations of my family never owned a slave, probably many more than that, didnt study it, nor do I care. Some were share croppers. You won’t get a penny from me without physical force. Please, put a lien on my property that I fully intend to own until my toes turn up. I hope I’ve trained my children well enough to come and take it after I’m gone. If you’re reading kids, burn it before you let the tyrants take it!
Why is anyone responsible for crimes of others? Yet even another vote-buying scheme.
It wasn’t a “crime” when it happened
In the “present”, it is.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. It takes a weak-minded person to even consider such a foolish thing. If this is the case then I deserve reparations for what my ancestors put up with during Sherman’s march through Georgia. He and his men pillaged, robbed, burned and looted all the way to Savannah taking away millions of dollars from good innocent citizens who had nothing to do with the war. Give me a blinking break. Somebody in High Point has lost their mind.
The Union was the first to wage Total War (not Hitler).
Slavery reparations eh? Here we go again. This is the Albatross hanging around the necks of Democrats. Trump is the Republican Albatross! Not sure which smells worse?
Are they doing DNA testing? If a person is 50% white, and 50% black, does their white half owe their black half reparations, making it a wash?
When minorities are elected to government positions this is the kind of leadership that we get. Be careful who we elect to positions of power. This is the only hope that we have today and in the future.
I can’t walk and need transportation with wheelchair
I think this is important!
Me too!!
This is a lot of BS! NO slaves today, the money has to come from somewhere, you and I, we will all pay it one way or another.
High Point this is BS!!!!!!!!!!!
The verification process will be interesting. When someone is expecting a check, and is told no that will create some amazing fireworks.
Pee Wee Trahan used to sing songs like “Looking For A Handout,” “Still Looking For A Handout,” & “Federal Aid.” Some called the songs racist, some called them satire. Funny how no matter what you call them they depict this same mess in vivid detail.
Boycott High Point.
But if they want to negate slavery, surely they should agree to return to Africa. Why don’t we make that a condition for receiving “reparations”..?
The blacks in America can’t “return to Africa” since they have never been in Africa. They are Americans, just as much as me and more so than you. Should we send you back to Great Britain? Or is it Australia?
It’s Great Britain. But I’m not trying to reach into your pocket – am I?
The African-Americans can’t have it both ways. Either they accept their history and their life in America, or they reject it and return to Africa.
If I were black, I would thank God every morning that I lived in this country and not in the sewer of poverty, disease, corruption, violence, crime, and squalor that is Africa.
Thank God my ancestors were brought here.
But hey, if they can’t stand this horrible, racist, bigoted white supremacist country, they can go back to their home continent.
Delta’s ready when they are.
Hey numbnuts Austin is not asking for anything from anybody
I am *SO* glad I got a job in Eastern NC and left that hell hole.
It’s going to be so funny when the next governor, Mark Robinson, shuts all this woke garbage down.
I agree wholeheartedly
High Point City Council and all their hires think they are untouchable. High Point should be under the same Raleigh scrutiny as the City of Greensboro and the City of Winston-Salem. North Carolina should adopt Virginia’s arrangement; a person lives in a city or in a county but not both. Thereby, taxes are paid to only one government.
I agree, but then WHO gets the taxes and who gets screwed…we know THAT answer
The blacks in America can’t “return to Africa” since they have never been in Africa. They are Americans, just as much as me and more so than you. Should we send you back to Great Britain? Or is it Australia?
They have never been slaves either.
Folks, welcome to the wonderful world of a Socialist Democracy vs. a Representative Republic.
Wayne, you have your response wrong. If Blacks are expecting reparations because an ancestor may have been hunted down by other Africans and sold into slavery, then those Blacks need to return to Africa from whence their ancestor came since there is apparently a belief that the actions of their ancestor was wrong. Return to Africa and confront the genesis of the slave trade, greedy Africans. Slave traders could not have engaged in the trade of human bondage without the Africans willing to sell other Africans to the slave traders. It is easy and convenient to blame those who purchased the Africans. The African slaves benefited from living in this country. They were housed, clothed, fed, and taught a trade. Many of the slaves were schooled, including the slaves of Thomas J. Jackson. I am exhausted from hearing the whinny Blacks talk racism and reparations. They should thank God every day that an African sold their ancestor to the slave traders. No reparations are due to any Black.
My ancestor came from England, landing in Maryland in 1676. He arrived with a trade and he and his descendants contributed to this country, including serving in the military and fighting in wars. No one was ever on welfare.