The Commission on Racial Equity \u2014 which consists of 15 members aided by at least a half-dozen paid staffers \u2014 last week issued a solicitation<\/a> to find a vendor to create a report for it on \u201chow wealth for the White population, key businesses, and NYC government grew as a result of enslaved African labor.\u201d<\/p>\n The report must include<\/a> information on \u201cthe harms perpetrated and perpetuated by NYC government related to chattel slavery and its legacies\u201d and how the city financially benefited from chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and the legacy of slavery, as well as pointing to neighborhoods that \u201csuffered from grave injustice related to slavery and its legacies.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition, the commission will need recommendations for \u201creparative policies\u201d and the \u201clegislative language and funding mechanisms\u201d needed to address slavery in the city 160 years after the Civil War ended, the request said.<\/p>\n It is not clear how much the outsourced work will cost \u2014 or whether the dough will come from the panel\u2019s existing budget or be an add-on expenditure \u2014 since the taxpayer-funded agency did not respond to a Post request for the information.<\/p>\n A previous cost estimate put such a report at $1.5 million.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me get this straight: The commission that has already spent millions of dollars to dredge up racial grievances and do nothing at all to help make any New Yorker\u2019s life better now wants to spend millions more to pay other people to do their useless work for them?\u201d raged City Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-SI). <\/p>\n \u201cUnreal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I think, that\u2019s it, we have found the absolutely most absurd way to set fire to taxpayer money, this city says, \u2018Hold my beer.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n The commission was tasked with conducting the study under a controversial<\/a> set of bills passed in 2024.<\/p>\n Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCORE in consultation with the office of racial equity, shall conduct a study of the role of the governing Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio led the charge on the group\u2019s creation in 2021 as a way to address \u201cpast and continuing harms\u201d of black residents.<\/p>\n The panel already dropped around $200,000 on getting \u201d\u00a0truth testimony from New Yorkers\u201d earlier this year to generate these reports.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hosted-first-ever-citywide-gathering-126509155.jpg\")
Linda Tigani, the chair and executive director of the NYC Commission on Racial Equity, speaking at an event on June 10, 2025. CORE is outsourcing its job to study reparations to a vendor. YouTube\/Commission On Racial Equity<\/p>\n![\"NYC](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nyc-core-ed-chair-linda-124543262.jpg\")
The commission is exempt from Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s calls for budget cuts. Facebook\/NYC Commission on Racial Equity<\/p>\n
bodies and agencies of the city of New York in perpetrating or perpetuating historical and ongoing
impacts of slavery and its legacies and recommend reparative measures for affected individuals
or communities in New York city,\u201d according to the law.<\/p>\n