Chicago will now require companies that did business in the slavery era to confess their sins before they can do business with the city.
This includes corporations that may not themselves have had any relationship to slavery (eg corporations that did not exist at the time) but may have in any way become related to such corporations (eg by merger, purchase, etc).
Can you say “unfunded mandate”? Does the city of Chicago have any idea what this sort of thing is going to cost the corporations that do business with it?
Frankly, any company that does business with the city of Chicago should tell them to go fuck themselves. Then the city would have to sue them, and then there would be a test case that would probably overturn the new ordinance as placing an onerous requirement on city contractors. I’m hoping this is exactly what happens but it probably won’t.
It’s just another way to force the reparations non-issue to the surface again.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)