Reparations for Black Americans by Andrew Karpan

Author:Andrew Karpan [Author, Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Overview: Reparations Worked Before—Just the Other Way Around

Thomas Craemer

Thomas Craemer teaches public policy at the University of Connecticut.

The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year-seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality.

Yet whenever calls for reparations are made-as they are again now-opponents counter that it would be unfair to saddle a debt on those not personally responsible. In the words of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on Juneteenth—the day Black Americans celebrate as marking emancipation—in 2019, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea”

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