{"id":17174,"date":"2021-07-12T05:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2021-07-12T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:48:03","slug":"reparations-for-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2021\/07\/12\/reparations-for-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Reparations for African Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first week of our program, Ray shared some asynchronous content with us in the DCERP Fellows drive. The supplementary reading referenced the Kerner Report which President Johnson ordered to assess and make recommendations for the race-related \u201criots\u201d that occurred during the summer of 1967. The reading also discussed issues surrounding social justice like wealth\/income inequality and health disparities in communities of color. In addition to the reading, Ray also linked a video about the racial wealth gap in the United States. The video covered some of the history of wealth among Black people in America and the long term effects it has had. This video (<\/span>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Mqrhn8khGLM<\/span><\/a>) really helped explain to me the importance of wealth in society and some of its complexities which was a welcome and important change in understanding for me that went beyond wealth equaling money. Housing discrimination and redlining mean more than not being able to live where one wants; it can lead to less access to quality education, reduced connection to resources, and more. It was also interesting albeit frustrating to see how certain discriminatory practices and inequalities have synthesized to create a racial wealth gap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this information and some of the previous discussions I\u2019ve had in and outside of the [virtual] classroom made me think about the current conversations surrounding reparations for African Americans. Reparations are defined as <\/span>the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.<\/span> I<\/span>n my introductory African American from last semester, we read a New York Times article written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 Project, titled \u201cWhat is Owed\u201d. To give a brief overview of the article, Hannah-Jones provided a plethora of sources\/examples of the injustices that African Americans have faced in the US, shows how these injustices have affected communities, and argues that it is time for reparations for African Americans and what the government should and can do in terms of reparations. There\u2019s been a lot of discussion on how exactly reparations would be given for example what criteria would need to be met or would it be a monetary compensation and if so how much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A task I had to complete for my site was taking their learning course that they are trying to market and implement in schools, as a student and give my feedback. In one of the course\u2019s assignments I had to find local articles and do some analysis with those. One of the articles I found was about reparations for African Americans in Detroit (<\/span>https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2021\/06\/15\/city-council-oks-reparations-resolution\/7701740002\/<\/span><\/a>). City Council is exploring the idea of reparations for Detroit\u2019s Africna American residents and the article discusses some of the community-led initiatives like Proposal P which includes creating a reparations task force. I\u2019m interested in learning more about the proposal because I\u2019ve seen a lot of the \u201cProposal P is a Problem\u201d commercials but I did not know what it was or what changes would be made with the proposal. I\u2019m still not 100% sure about how I feel about the proposal as it has some good (reparations task force, improving water affordability) it also has some questionable aspects (potential bankruptcy?) I plan to have some conversations with friends and family in the city to see what their sentiments are towards the proposal but I think we\u2019ll all agree that the reparations task force would be a bountiful step in the right direction!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the first week of our program, Ray shared some asynchronous content with us in the DCERP Fellows drive. The supplementary reading referenced the Kerner Report which President Johnson ordered to assess and make recommendations for the race-related \u201criots\u201d that occurred during the summer of 1967. The reading also discussed issues surrounding social justice like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[588,495,589,587],"class_list":["post-17174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcerp-2021","tag-asynchronous-learning","tag-dcerp2021","tag-proposition-p","tag-reparations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}