ESSAY #19 1.10.21 POSTED 12.14.21 Reparations: Compensation or Repair-ations

Reparations: Compensation or Repair-ations


The conversation regarding reparations has begun, and it has the potential to help bring about racial equity on many levels of our society. But if we get bogged down in an argument about individual compensation for the evils of slavery, the political enemies of fairness and equity will use it as a way to generate fear, and to stall progress toward true reconciliation and repair-ations. We can’t afford that!