The 360 | Should the U.S. give reparations for slavery?
Why it’s in the news: Last month at a CNN town hall, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was asked about reparations and responded: “What does that mean? What do they mean? I’m not sure anyone’s very clear.” Sanders elaborated in a March 4 radio interview — when asked if he would support “free cash payouts” to African-Americans, he said: “No. Do you mean a check to every African-American? Well, then, that means a check to every Native American that were wiped out when the settlers came.
A handful of candidates — Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro — have expressed some form of support for reparations. Sen. Cory Booker is touting a “baby bonds” plan to close the racial wealth gap. Marianne Williamson, a self-help author and spiritual adviser, wants to set aside $100 billion for a reparations program.
“We’re a nation coming apart at the seams, a nation in which each tribe has its own narrative, and the narratives are generally resentment narratives. The African-American experience is somehow at the core of this fragmentation — the original sin that hardens the heart, separates Americans from one another and serves as model and fuel for other injustices. The need now is to consolidate all the different narratives and make them reconciliation and possibility narratives, in which all feel known.
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