“For now,” Fischer said, ”along with this apology, I pledge to continue to fight injustice for my remaining time as mayor, and all my breaths thereafter.”
At a Juneteenth luncheon organized by the Metro Human Relations Commission, Louisville, Kentucky Mayor Greg Fischer apologized to Black residents for the city’s role in upholding and instituting racist systems.
“I cannot erase all the injustices from the first slave ships to today,” Fischer told the audience last Thursday at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, according to the today!
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