For a long while, reparations for Black Americans has been more a debate topic than a reality. I know that various groups of Americans have been granted reparations in the past, such as the descendants of Japanese Americans placed in internment camps during World War II. And I certainly believe that Black Americans have deserved reparations. It’s more that I have questioned the idea of what I would regard as new reparations. Affirmative action can be seen as an enormous reparations policy, although the term is rarely used in that context.

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Persons: I’ve, William Darity Jr, Kirsten Mullen’s “, ”, Boris Bittker Organizations: Black, New, New York State, National Welfare Rights Organization, Reinvestment Locations: Evanston, Ill, San Francisco, New York