Melaneyes' School

"The Case for Reparations" is an online course sharing information about the history and viability of reparations for Black American descendants of enslaved Africans. 

With world wide protests taking place in 2020 and the passing of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, the conversation about repairing the ills of the past in regards to treatment of Black Americans, has been pushed to the forefront.

"Black Americans are the only group that has not received reparations for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, while slavery afforded some white families the ability to accrue tremendous wealth." - Brookings Policy 2020

In 1865 after the end of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman gave an order that promised 40 acres of land to former slaves. That early idea of reparations to be paid-in kind to the formerly enslaved stemmed from a discussion Sherman and War Secretary Edwin Stanton held in Savannah with leaders of its Black community. Months later, however, President Andrew Johnson reneged on that promise, and no action has been taken since.

In this online learning experience we will take the time to:

• Define what reparations is
• Discuss the history of reparations
• Examine the financial component
• Look at viable solutions and forms of reparations
• Review local examples

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the concept, it is clear there is a national conversation that needs to be had; so you need to be educated on this topic.

Black Descendants of enslaved Africans are tired of symbolic gestures of equality and the illusion of inclusion. It is time to level the playing field, close the racial wealth divide and rectify hundreds of years of forced labor of a people.

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