Those discussions — over whether the commission should take money it had raised and use it for reparations, how much money that would be and who would control it — ran aground on Wednesday. According to the commission, Ms. Abrams, a voting rights activist and former candidate for governor in Georgia, withdrew that same day. “This clash was coming,” said J. Kavin Ross, chairman of the committee overseeing the city’s search for mass graves of massacre victims. “The centennial commission was never about raising money for reparations,” said Hannibal B. Johnson, a Tulsa lawyer who is the commission’s education chair. “The reparations should come from government entities because there is evidence they were complicit.

Source: New York Times May 29, 2021 00:22 UTC