What Are Reparations? – Non Profit News

  The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: A Policy Vision from the Movement for Black Lives.” View the full webinar here. When it comes to even repair and what Black people need, people have so many different definitions on what reparations is for Black people. But there are key elements that must happen. Here are three of them. One is resources, like land and money. The other is policies and programs. People have all kinds of areas where they want policies and programs; it can be wealth building, education, housing, [the] criminal-legal system, environment, health, employment, democracy, so many different things. The third one is the most dubious [to achieve] of them all, and that’s the end to the anti-Blackness.…That is the most dubious, because this country is built on anti-Blackness. It’s inherent in our systems. Even today, the FBI just came out with a report: the top survivors of hate crimes are African Americans. Black people, but specifically African Americans in this country. [But] there is no “stop the anti-Black hate.” We don’t see those campaigns anywhere, because of the insidiousness of anti-Blackness in this country, and how inherent it is!...