Supporters of a House bill that would create a commission to study and develop reparations for African Americans are working to push the legislation forward, three decades after it was introduced.
Darity says the amount owed should be enough to eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States. “That gap amounts to approximately $840,000 per household, per Black and white household. That's the differential. If we were to try to convert that into an individual measure, it would be about $350,000 for Black or Black and white individual,” Darity told Yahoo News.
“We're talking about policies. We're also talking about how do you repair a people? How do you repair communities? We're talking about how do you build infrastructure for economic development, health care, like community-based hospitals and public clinics,” he said. "There are plenty of African Americans who are not the descendants of slaves, but who have been harmed in other ways, by redlining, or by systematic de facto discrimination in the kind of private sphere," Raff Donelson,, told Yahoo News.
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