A nonprofit organization supporting the Black community in Kentucky says they received a 'six-figure reparations payment' from a white American who recently discovered her ancestor enslaved people in the area.
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The organization did not wish to disclose the exact amount it received as part of the payment, just that it was"six figures." "Even though the American government has not taken steps to atone for what James Baldwin would call the 'original sin, slavery,' there have in recent years been Americans that don't see reparations as a topic to be debated but an obligation that must be fulfilled to Black Americans," Nannie Grace Croney, the organization's deputy director, said in a news conference Monday."These Americans are creating the blueprint for what reparations in America can look like.
She added that the donor encouraged other white Americans to also pay reparations and to continue to petition the government to pay reparations to Black and Indigenous Americans.
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