Keepin' It Real by Elwood Watson;

Author:Elwood Watson;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781789380514
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

• Rampant abject poverty

• Subpar educational performance

• Hyper segregated school systems with grossly inadequate funding

• Chronic obesity levels due to lack of access to quality food in many Black neighborhoods

• Staggeringly high HIV rates

• Drug epidemic in many Black communities (the same can be said for a growing number of lower income and working-class White communities as well)

• Disproportionate numbers of Black men in prison compared to the general population

• Inadequate living conditions in many Black neighborhoods

• Intense levels of violence due to poverty and lack of economic opportunities

• Rampant police brutality

• Environmental racism

• Poor high-school graduation rates

• Low college graduation rates

• Hyper segregated communities

• High levels of mental health issues

• Systemic and systematic racism and discrimination in virtually all areas of life

The list goes on. No reasonable person can deny these indisputable truths. Most, if not all, of the aforementioned vices are largely due to centuries of past and present circumstances that afflict many people of African descent (Craven, 2016). The psychological impact is real.

To all those Whites people who make the argument that they did not enslave anyone or that they and their relatives never owned slaves, we should respond that this entirely misses the point. The truth is that White people have benefited from past and present retrograde institutional policies that had, and still have, a disproportionate negative impact on many Black people.

Discussions on how such reparation policies would be implemented are ones that are ripe for thoughtful, engaging, and robust debate. Some ideas I would suggest are:

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