The Case for Reparations

See on Scoop.itOUR COMMON GROUND Informed Truth and Resistance

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus‘s insight:

By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it.

— Anonymous, 1861

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