In a wide-ranging discussion on reparation in the U.S., Darity, who recently co-authored the book From Here to Equality: Reparations for black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, talked about the legacy of the massacre on generational wealth in black America, the backlash to critical race theory, and why a Congressional bill to study reparations doesn’t go far enough. If they believed that black Americans were catching up, or black Americans had actually outstripped them — and there is some evidence to suggest that there was a large number of white Americans who believe that despite what the actual evidence shows — then what you’re actually doing is you’re combining concerns about economic anxiety with racism.