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Any meaningful conversation about reparations absolutely must include space for a public national reckoning w/ what this country has done & continues to do to black ppl. W/o that ppl will keep talking past one another & our sense of what is necessary won't be grounded in history.
It's essential to have a deep, public examination of what chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, redlining, housing/school segregation, mass incarceration, etc have done to the black community. It allows for a more honest conversation about what's necessary to make amends for that.
I operate under no delusion that simply informing more ppl about the history of violence against black ppl is enough by itself. But it's important bc it gives those of good faith a common language, history, & framework upon which to begin a more empirically grounded conversation.
