RISKY BUSINESS: A councilwoman proposes taxing 'White-led businesses' and redistributing the wealth to minorities as part of re-election pitch.
"Reparations' goal should not be survival, it should be repairing the harm, which is this entire economy," CdeBaca said.
One of CdeBaca's opponents at the forum defended the Five Points BID as actually helping current Black business owners, setting off a tiff between the two candidates. "There are Black folks that we all know around this table that are part of the BID," said candidate Darrell Watson. "Instead of attacking the BID, look at how you can work with them collaboratively. I've met and spoke with them, they are receiving reparations dollars from Denver downtown partnership from White corporate businesses to bring to the Five Points Corridor," he added.
She also took aim at minority business owners who participated in economic programs that hurt others of their skin color. "When we look at the BID, we were often supporting Black business owners who were willing to exploit other Black business owners. And that needs to be called out, and we need to also make sure we don't stand behind that and be complicit," CdeBaca said.
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