Reparations for historical crimes and injustices such as slavery and genocide have been made in other countries. Will the US join the list?
, reparations, if handled judiciously, could lead to the elimination of the Black-white wealth gap within 10 years.
More than 25 years after apartheid officially ended, South Africa is still wrangling with how to restore to Black ownership vast tracts of land, much of it taken by force by whites, but some also sold to white colonial settlers by indigenous communities. "One of the main reasons for the backlogs in land transfer is corruption and incompetence among officials," alleged Nico Harris, 61, a white Afrikaner whose family farm in the rolling lush hills of South Africa’s most abundant agricultural land of KwaZulu-Natal province, home to the Zulu tribe, was seized by the government.Meanwhile, many new Black farmers have gone out of business for lack of resources.
Justin Hansford, a law professor and executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University, said that the example of South Africa, though flawed, may still be the most instructive for reparation comparisons to the USA. He cited a number of different initiatives and groups that have been pursuing restitution at the local level, such as when students at Georgetown University in 2019 voted to tax themselves a small amount each semester to create a fund that will support the descendants of the enslaved people from whom the university profited., as well as a memorial, free college tuition and employment assistance for Black Americans tortured by police.
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