Opinion | William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen: How reparations for American descendants of slavery could narrow the racial wealth divide - NBCNewsTHINK
, among them — have entailed direct payments to the beneficiaries. Why should reparations for black American descendants of slavery be treated any differently?
Indeed, black reparations should target specifically black American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.
There are other groups whose grievances may warrant redress from the federal government. But they should make their own unique case, not collapse it into the native black American claim for full citizenship and justice. Indeed, there seems to be an inconsistency between the attitude taken toward other claims for reparations and the black American claim.
H.R. 40 provides an opportunity to begin the process of fulfilling the long-standing national obligation.William Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook professor of public policy, African and African American Studies and economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.
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