Economist Lays Out Case for Reparations That Would Cost Us Gov’t $12T

“The U.S. government — the culpable party — must pay the debt,” argues the report, “Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black Americans,” which was published by liberal think tank The Roosevelt Institute in June. Eligibility should be restricted to living descendants of people who were enslaved in the U.S. before the Civil War, who have identified as black or African American on government documents for at least 12 years prior to the implementation of the reparations program, they state. “Black reparations are not a matter of personal or individual institutional guilt; black reparations are a matter of national responsibility.”