RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MATTERS
Reparations Are the Only Way To Heal America’s Racial Divide
If there were any other way, we would have taken that route by now. Let’s unpack this
If America is serious about healing from its racial wounds, reparations are the only path forward. The average White family has 6.7 times the wealth compared with Black families. White Americans’ heightened sociopolitical status is not due to superior intellect, strength, or tenacity — this generational wealth was acquired through ill-gotten gains.
Through the institution of slavery, Jim Crow, and racist policies that followed, White families have amassed an enormous amount of wealth, and there is no realistic way for Black people to catch up, other than for Congress to pass HR 40- the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. And, if a rising tide lifts all boats, then why stop the tide?
Black people have already done their part, building American homes and public buildings like the White House, all for free. In addition, the American economy, fueled initially by the cotton, rice, and sugar harvested by Black enslaved people, shows our nation owes a great debt to Black Americans. Yet, “the ratio of White family wealth to Black family wealth…
