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Notably, 82% of Black Americans support reparations, while 75% of White Americans do not. Some arguments also highlight the complications behind reparations, such as "not all Black Americans are descendants of slaves" or that the people alive today are not responsible for the harms of slavery.
The stated mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is: ...to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave "Trade" Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
The Case for Black Reparations, Richard F. America, C-SPAN video of the TransAfrica Forum, 11 January 2000. Making Amends: Debate Continues Over Reparations for U.S. Slavery, National Public Radio, August 27, 2001. Reparations and Climate Justice (w/ Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò), part of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series.
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading ...
In 2021, 77% of Black Americans said they supported issuing reparations tied to slavery, while only 18% of white Americans agreed, according to the Pew Research Center.
Under consideration at this time is establishing and funding a commission-led study on the effects that offering reparations of some kind would have. RELATED: Roy Moore's claim America was great ...
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 ...
Denominations offer a glimpse into endeavors at "reconciliation" for their own involvement in another institution dawning centuries ago: slavery.