Are Reparations Due to African-Americans? (NYT Roundtable)
To address the terrible human and economic costs of slavery and racial injustice in the United States, many have proposed that reparations be paid to African-Americans.
Would this compensate for the wrongs that have been done? Is it fair or practical to consider it? And if reparations were approved, how would they be implemented?
We Need a ‘Reparations Superfund’
MARY FRANCES BERRY, FORMER CHAIRWOMAN, U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
ALFRED L. BROPHY, AUTHOR, "REPARATIONS PRO AND CON"
JOHN MCWHORTER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
MATT FLETCHER, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
MELANYE PRICE, AUTHOR, "DREAMING BLACKNESS: BLACK NATIONALISM AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION"
NOAH MILLMAN, THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE
RANDALL ROBINSON, AUTHOR, "THE DEBT: WHAT AMERICA OWES TO BLACKS"