The mayor of Florida’s Broward County has proposed a task force that would address issues of systemic racism.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the proposal is the third from Broward County Mayor Dale Holness that attempts to address the issue of systemic racism. Holness previously proposed a police review board that would analyze the behaviors of law enforcement, as well as expanding the county’s human rights protections to include ethnic hairstyles.
Holness’ latest proposal is the creation of a racial equity task force that, according to county records, would take “concrete steps to dismantle identified systemic racism and create greater racial equity in Broward County.” The task force would respond to complaints from the public, “written or otherwise,” and would consist of up to 34 members.
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Members of the task force would include Black Lives Matter activists, the Broward County Chiefs of Police Association, the New Florida Majority, members of academia, as well as a defense attorney, and prosecutor.
“We’ve seen the huge disparities that exist within our societies,” Holness told the Sun-Sentinel. “It’s a matter of how we fix it.”
I’m very curious about how the task force will work, and the exact solutions that it would propose. As we should all know, racism is more than just someone dropping a foul slur. It’s…an attitude. Are all of the solutions going to boil down to John Cena hitting the offender with an attitude adjustment?
Source: County Mayor in Florida Proposes Task Force to Fight Systemic Racism
