For the past few years, there has been a debate on whether descendants of slaves should be granted reparations. The ideal scenario would be to have free access to everything, but is that a realistic solution? In this episode, Krista takes off her rose-colored glasses and examines arguments for and against slavery reparations. While on that touchy subject, she talks about what feasible solution world work for reparations, if any, and concerns about reparations that exist on both sides of the argument.
Read Ta-Nehisi Coates' article: “The Case for Reparations" : www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/.
Read the United Nations' "International Decade for People of African Descent": www.un.org/en/observances/decade-people-african-descent.
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Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFIzYlPLUOk9MAyKFdO9NflsV5Kbm3tb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111193658715725441719&rtpof=true&sd=true
Sources: See episode transcript
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