{"id":552,"date":"2020-10-29T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/?p=552"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:04:46","slug":"s5e1-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2020\/10\/29\/s5e1-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"S5E6 Reparations: How it Could Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end of the Civil War. It\u2019s getting new traction in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Reparations: How it Could Happen by Sanford School @ Duke\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F762732445&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor William &#8220;Sandy&#8221; Darity, Jr. argues the current racial wealth gap \u2013 in which African Americans, who make up 13 percent of the national population but hold only three percent of national wealth \u2013 can be traced to a series of government policies that denied economic opportunity to African Americans and provided opportunities to many white Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Among these programs is the reversal of General William T. Sherman\u2019s promise to set aside 400,000 acres of confiscated Confederate land for free slaves (the basis for the idea of 40 acres and a mule); exclusion of many freed slaves from benefiting from the Homestead Act, which provided land ownership to over 1.6 million white families compared to only 4,000 \u2013 5,000 African-Americans; and unequal application of the GI Bill\u2019s guaranteed low-cost loans by local bankers.<\/p>\n<p>Darity has created a Reparations Planning Committee in order to flesh out the details of how the U.S. might\u00a0 execute a reparations program. The group includes an economic historian, a genealogist who specializes in African American history, and other experts. They are currently in the process of figuring out who would get reparations and how much it would cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think reparations for Black American descendants of slavery in the United States is something that is fully justified and morally required,&#8221; says Darity, &#8220;The fact that we may still be in a moment where the odds of it occurring appear to be low, that&#8217;s not a reason to not be engaged in the struggle to make it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ways &amp; Means podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/sanford.duke.edu\/people\/faculty\/darity-jr-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William &#8220;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sanford.duke.edu\/people\/faculty\/darity-jr-william\">Sandy&#8221; Darity<\/a> and his research. His new book with coauthor A. Kirsten Mullin is <a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469654973\/from-here-to-equality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21<sup>st-<\/sup>Century<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out Tony Burroughs&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyburroughs.com\/\">genealogy website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/waysandmeans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/02\/S5E1-Reparations-Transcript.pdf\">Read the transcript<\/a> of this episode<\/li>\n<li>Original Artwork: <a href=\"https:\/\/raehsu.pixieset.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rae Hsu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Music: Theme music by David Schulman. <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Terrier Waltz\u201d by Nat Keefe with the Bow Ties; \u201cTo Weather a Storm\u201d by Dan Lebowitz; \u201cSing Swing Bada Bing\u201d by Doug Maxwell (YouTube Music Library). \u201cPuzzler,\u201d \u201cCurious Process,\u201d and \u201cNocturnal\u201d by Sound of Picture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This season of Ways &amp; Means is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/polis.duke.edu\/\">Polis: the Center for Politics at Duke University\u2019s Sanford School of Public Policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end of the Civil War. 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