MARYLAND (WBFF) — After a bill to create a Maryland Reparations Commission passed in the General Assembly, it remains unclear if Governor Wes Moore plans to sign it or not.
The legislation would establish a commission to study and make recommendations for potential reparations for slavery and to those who continue to feel the lingering effects of racial discrimination in the state.
“This is not a conversation about paying people today, but it is a conversation about what are the appropriate remedies, but also, what are the nexuses to the historical pieces of legislation or the historical policies that were put in place in the same halls we serve in today that have had that negative impact, and we have a duty to remedy those,” explained Delegate Caylin Young…