Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr., economist and professor at Duke University, was featured in Futurity for his appearance on the Ways & Means podcast, where he laid out the moral and economic case for reparations for Black American descendants of slavery.
I think reparations… is something that is fully justified and morally required.”
He traced the roots of today’s racial wealth gap to centuries of racially discriminatory policies—including exclusion from land ownership and unequal access to federal benefits—and introduced the work of his Reparations Planning Committee, which is actively developing a concrete framework for implementation.
The idea is that wealth begets wealth. That wealth is something that is acquired cumulatively. And so you can either get on the path of accumulation or you can be on the path of decumulation.”
The feature highlights Darity’s longstanding leadership in reparations research and his argument that historical injustice requires federal redress, not symbolic gestures.
Read the full article here: How would reparations for African Americans actually work?
