A senior adviser to President Joe Biden said the White House will act without Congress to develop proposals for reparations, or direct payments to African Americans. White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond told Axios on Sunday: “We don’t want to wait on a study. We’re going to start acting now.” “We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back and especially African Americans,” Richmond added to the outlet. “We have to do stuff now.” “If you start talking about free college tuition to [historically black colleges and universities] and you start talking about free community college in Title I and all of those things, I think that you are well on your way,” he remarked, noting that a timeline for Congress’s commission to study reparations was not known. Legislation for reparations was first introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) in 1989. In recent …