I didn't intend to write this now, but the times called for it: In this moment, the most tragic of outcomes would be that the demand be too timid and the resolution too small. If black lives are to truly matter in this country, American must pay its debt. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
What Is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality

For the Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones explains how centuries of violence and discrimination preventing black Americans from building wealth are the root cause of today’s racial inequalities — and...

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"So much of what makes black lives hard, what takes black lives earlier, what causes black Americans to be vulnerable to the type of surveillance and policing that killed Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, is the lack of wealth that has defined black life since the end of slavery."
The prosperity of this country is inextricably linked with the forced labor of the ancestors of 40 million black Americans. And for black lives to truly matter, this country must move beyond slogans and symbolism, and must repair what's been done.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
As we focus on police violence, we cannot ignore an even starker indication of our societal failures: Racial income and wealth disparities today look no different than they did the decade before Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.
I hope you will, at the very least, read this essay with an open mind. I believe if you do so, you will find it hard to come to any other conclusion.
I hope you will, at the very least, read this essay with an open mind. I believe if you do so, you will find it hard to come to any other conclusion.
I hope you will, at the very least, read this essay with an open mind. I believe if you do so, you will find it hard to come to any other conclusion.
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