Reparations are still relevant today
It isn’t only about fixing mistakes made years ago — it’s about fixing mistakes made today
There was a reparations senate hearing last week.
There was all sorts of response. The audience in the Senate that day filled four overflow rooms. Now it seems like no matter who you are, you’ve got an opinion.
There are two main categories of people who oppose reparations:
Some fall in the basket with Mitch McConnell who believes that reparations are irrelevant now because no one alive was born into or had anything to do with slavery. For these people, reparations aren’t in order. Slavery is behind us so reparations should be too.
For others, reparations border on slander. It seems to them as if reparations are another way to put Black Americans down. To this group, reparations devalue Black people because it tells them that they can’t do it on their own, even though they have been ever since slavery ended, and even before.
To all who think US’s white supremacist ancestry has nothing to do with us, let me bring Reparations into today for you.
Racism By The Stats
Let’s pretend for a second that slavery never happened — a really really wrong…
