Woke NYC Commission Outsources Its Own Job to Study Slavery Reparations

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A city commission that costs taxpayers $5 million a year solely to study racial inequity has contracted out one of its main jobs — researching potential slavery reparations.

The Commission on Racial Equity — which consists of 15 members aided by at least a half-dozen paid staffers — last week issued a solicitation to find a vendor to create a report for it on “how wealth for the White population, key businesses, and NYC government grew as a result of enslaved African labor.”

The report must include information on “the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by NYC government related to chattel slavery and its legacies” and how the city financially benefited from chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and the legacy of slavery, as well as pointing to neighborhoods that “suffered from grave injustice related to slavery and its legacies.”

In addition, the commission will need recommendations for “reparative policies” and the “legislative language and funding mechanisms” needed to address slavery in the city 160 years after the Civil War ended, the request said.

It is not clear how much the outsourced work will cost — or whether the dough will come from the panel’s existing budget or be an add-on expenditure — since the taxpayer-funded agency did not respond to a Post request for the information.

A previous cost estimate put such a report at $1.5 million.

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