 We're grateful to all those who refuse to give up the fight for justice, who have understood and continue to push that there is no statute of limitations on addressing wrongs that we have the ability to make right. The idea of a city giving reparations to its residents is a relatively new one. Most of the time when we talk about reparations, it's in a national context that harkens back to the post-Civil War promise of 40 acres and a mule for those recently freed.