Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca (D) spoke out and called on the Colorado government to increase taxes on white-owned businesses and give that money to black- and brown-owned businesses as a form of reparations.
CdeBaca attended the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance Forum on Thursday and believes that “capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources.”
“And a check today could not undo the cumulative impact of generations of that stolen wealth in all of those categories,” CdeBaca said during the forum. “And so I think it has to come in the form of land, labor, and resources in an ongoing fashion. And there are structures that we have that could be flipped to begin to do that reparation.”…