Now Is the Time for Reparations: India Walton on Buffalo Mass Shooting That Targeted Black Community
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In one of this year's deadliest mass shootings, a white supremacist opened fire Saturday on a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 and wounding three others. Eleven of the victims are Black. The 18-year-old suspect posted racist ideology online before live-streaming his attack. We go to Buffalo to speak with India Walton, longtime community activist and former mayoral candidate, about the city's systemic racism and segregation, which has led to food apartheid." Black residents in east Buffalo have just one grocery store, which the shooter targeted. This is more than half a century of oppression, of systemic racism, and now is the time to renew the call for reparations," Walton says.