In today’s fraught political climate, it may feel counterintuitive to ignite a call for reparations.
At a time when many national leaders are conducting a far-reaching gaslighting experiment, attempting to erase America’s centuries-long embrace of slavery and its aftermath, reparations are often dismissed as politically toxic or impossibly complex and costly.
But this is not the time for small imaginations.
The above is an excerpt of an op-ed originally published in Word in Black.
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