It's time for reparations, advocates say. “This is definitely the moment,” Nkechi Taifa, a human-rights attorney and decades-long reparations advocate, said. “People are really mad; they’re upset; they are outraged.'
The death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic’s racial disparities have put historic inequalities shouldered by black Americans in starker relief than ever before — and some advocates say they point to a long-overdue consideration of reparations.
— Andre Perry, a fellow at the center-left Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program “It’s becoming more and more obvious that black communities have been robbed of the money that they’re owed from slavery, from Jim Crow racism and from systemic racism in things like housing and criminal justice,” he said.
Protests over George Floyd’s death symbolize more than police brutality Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer was filmed pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, was the initial impetus for the largely peaceful protests that unfolded in recent days.
And despite a better-than-expected May jobless rate, black people saw their unemployment rate inch up from 16.7% to 16.8%, while white people’s unemployment rate dipped from 14.2% to 12.4%, according to Labor Department numbers released Friday. Floyd himself had reportedly lost his job due to Minnesota’s shutdown.
“ During a campaign event last week, Delaware state Sen. Darius Brown pushed Joe Biden to actually fund reparations rather than study them. ” Duke University economist William Darity, a leading proponent of reparations, said he believed there had been momentum building recently for the idea to receive serious consideration.
Some prominent black voices, including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, have also rejected the idea. “I don’t think reparations help level the playing field — it might help more eruptions on the playing field,” he told Fox News in response to the proposal by Johnson, the BET founder. “George Floyd will lead to reparations getting taken more seriously, but I don’t think that’s a good thing,” he told MarketWatch. “We could get reparations tomorrow, and all the problems that led to [the death of] George Floyd would remain — so what we need to do is focus on those reforms to the police that would actually prevent such a thing from happening again.”
The U.S. has its own examples: In 1988, the federal government issued an apology and $1.6 billion to Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. The government also compensated Native American tribes whose land it had seized, though critics say Native Americans didn’t receive direct control of the money.
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