Juneteenth should be more than just a day of rest or celebration, keishablain says. It should be a day to remember what the U.S. owes descendants of slavery.
While critics argue that it’s too late to offer reparations, the push for reparations is almost as old as the country itself, and Bush’s legislation is just one of the more recent attempts to get recompense for slavery and the decades of discrimination, segregation and racist policies that followed.
There will be a need for recompense as long we continue to witness the legacies of slavery in the United States. Despite the many political gains and triumphs over the years, racism and white supremacy persist in all aspects of American life and culture.the average white family’s, a wealth gap tied directly to slavery. Black Americans experience poorer access to health care and lower quality of care than any other racial group.
For centuries, African Americans have been demanding reparations—sometimes in the form of actual payments and other times in the form of programs and resources. For centuries, African Americans have been demanding reparations — sometimes in the form of actual payments and other times in the form of programs and resources that help improve the socioeconomic conditions of Black people in the United States., petitioned the Massachusetts General Court in 1783 in an effort to receive a pension from the estate of her deceased former owner. At its core, Sutton’s petition was a demand for reparations. She referred explicitly to her years of unpaid labor.
in the House. The legislation, which takes its name from the “40 acres and a mule” promise, would establish a commission “to consider proposals for reparations for African American descendants of slavery.”
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