Enforce racial equity in Vt.

Mark Hughes
Executive Director
Justice For All Vermont
Montpelier, Vt.
Madam Chair and House Government Operations Committee,

Thank you for acknowledging racial disparities across all systems of state government in Act 54 (2017).

Thank you for committing to “dismantling systemic racism” in Act 9 (2018). The racial equity director will be seated any day now.

Thank you for introducing H.R.25 (2018), which urged the 2019 Senate to Amend the Constitution to ensure that slavery is completely prohibited.

PR.2, a proposal to amend the constitution to ensure that slavery is completely prohibited to “serve as a foundation for addressing systemic racism in our state’s laws and institutions” is now in Senate Government Operations.

Please take the next step. Take up H.478 to establish a task force to research reparations and consider a formal state apology for slavery. 

Respectfully,

Mark Hughes

Executive Director

Justice For All Vermont

Montpelier, Vt.

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