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One publication against reparations is David Horowitz, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery (2002). Other works that discuss problems with reparations include John Torpey 's Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006), Alfred Brophy 's Reparations Pro and Con (2006), and Nahshon Perez 's Freedom from ...
What is the argument against reparations? Critics say California and San Francisco never endorsed chattel slavery, and there is no one alive today who owned slaves or was enslaved. It is not fair ...
In an interview with NPR, [18] Coates stated that a main reason for writing "The Case for Reparations" was to get more people to acknowledge the argument for reparations. "The Case for Reparations" received multiple awards, including being named the "Top Work of Journalism of the Decade" by New York University's Carter School of Journalism ...
The topic of reparations gained renewed attention in 2020 [45] as the Black Lives Matter movement named reparations as one of their policy goals in the United States. In 2020, rapper T.I. supported reparations that would give every African American US$1 million and asserted that slavery caused mass incarcerations, poverty, and other ills. [46]
The state’s high court heard oral arguments in a first-of-its-kind reparations development for those harmed by the 1921 race massacre. For the first time in over a century, Oklahoma’s Supreme ...
Supporters of reparations say that evidence of past harm is plain to see on the streets of San Francisco, where about 40% of the homeless population is Black, nearly seven times greater than the ...
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act; Long title: To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent ...
The Washington, D.C., city council approved a budget for next year that includes funds for a reparations task force scheduled to study restitution and to develop proposals to address the harms of ...