Should America Pay? by Raymond A. Winbush

Stage 1, from 1865 to 1920, included the United States government’s attempt to compensate its newly released three million enslaved Africans from bondage.

“Many people are unaware that the discussion of reparations for African people has a long history in the United States, going through three distinct stages with a nascent fourth, beginning in 2002. Raymond Winbush, a renowned scholar on reparations, in his 2003 book ,“Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations,” laid out the historical and political framework from which the demand for reparations emerges. Cory Booker gave a lukewarm embrace of a watered-down version of reparations, the discourse around it had the effect of distancing from its Black radical and Black nationalist intellectual or political antecedents.ĭr. While people like Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Over the last several years, there have been more mainstream political conversations about reparations, and it received particular attention during the 2020 presidential campaign.

This has impacted the conversation about reparations. More investment in social programs, criminal justice reform policies (with an emphasis on “non-violent” offenders), and diversity in high levels of government and corporate America have been the milquetoast approaches by liberals to respond to the demands for racial justice.

The incorporation of racial justice discourse into the Democratic Party and the liberal elite mainstream has had an impact on the nature of the policy demands that are put forward in the name of Black Liberation.

Should America Pay? by Raymond A. Winbush