Slavery Today | Reparations Should Be Paid to Descendants of African American Slaves
Randall Robinson is founder and president of the TransAfrica Forum, a think tank in Washington, D.C., and author of The Debt: What America
Summary: Owes to Blacks, from which this viewpoint is excerpted. The United States profited enormously from the unpaid labor of black slaves for 246 years. The practice of slavery in America created a social atmosphere rife with racism and an economic disparity between whites and blacks that remains today. This economic inequality perpetuates slavery’s legacy of racism and prevents blacks from reaching their full...
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