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Issue Position: Close Racial Disparities through Anti-Racist Policies

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Criminal Justice

Racism is systemic and Vermont is late in acknowledging its presence and its costs. We must collect and publish data to better understand the particular experiences of people of color in Vermont. We must immediately increase the capacity of the office of the VT Director of Racial Equity and eliminate remaining references to slavery in the Vermont Constitution. We must standardize and strengthen accountability in investigations concerning police violence. The legislature must pass H-478, creating a task force to develop reparation proposals for African Americans. And Vermont must acknowledge its role in promoting eugenics by establishing a reparations commission to determine how to compensate the descendants of those affected by the eugenics project at UVM.


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