Today “The Movement for Black Lives,” a coalition “more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country” posted a 22 page list of “demands” in what they called “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice.”
The demands are fairly extensive and call for, among many other things, the following for Black people: free and open access to all public universities, retroactive forgiveness of all student loan debt, passage of H.R. 40 to study a “Reparation Proposal for African Americans,” removal of police from schools, retroactive decriminalization and release of all people held on drug and prostitution-related offenses and a restructuring of local, state and federal tax codes to achieve a “radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.” – READ MORE
