The, ‘How will we pay for it?’ argument is one that’s always thrown up as an obstacle to transformative policies. “The cost (estimate is) $10-$12 trillion, that should be the baseline amount of a plan. “(Also), mass incarceration of Black Americans, police executions of unarmed Blacks, ongoing discrimination (in credit opportunities) and discrimination in housing, and unemployment.”
from the end of the Civil War to the end of the 1940s.” “We also had a series of white massacres that took place. The second phase that’s pertinent is nearly 100 years of legal separation … what we colloquially refer to as Jim Crow.” “The starting point is the failure to provide Black Americans who were emerging from slavery with the land grants they were promised, while whites received (land grants) four times as large. “The wealth gap that we observe today is the cumulative intergenerational effect of racial injustice in the United States,” said Darity, co-author of the new book, “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century,” written with folklorist and arts consultant Kirsten Mullen. slavery must be designed to eliminate the racial wealth differential.” “We think that this wealth gap is what should be the primary target of a reparations initiative, that any well-designed reparations plan for Black descendants of U.S. “As a consequence there is this gaping chasm in opportunity and in the capability to participate in a society, and there’s ultimately denial for access to the material conditions for full citizenship in the United States.” This corresponds to a condition where the average Black household has $840,000 less in net worth than the average white household,” said William “Sandy” Darity, an economist at Duke University.
This gap is fully captured by the fact that Blacks make up about 13% of the population but possess only about 2% of the nation’s wealth. “There is an enormous gap in wealth between Blacks and whites in the United States. The Biden administration recently stated its support for addressing reparations. Duke economist William “Sandy” Darity discussed Thursday how America’s Black-white wealth gap came to be, and the case for reparations for Black Americans, during a video briefing for the media.
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