First, Go and Be Reconciled—Why American Reparations Must Be Paid
The most jarring pages in The Black Reparations Project are filled almost exclusively with numbers.A table is headed with the dry title “Annual Total Debt Estimates and Cumulative Debt Estimates at 3% Interest, 1776–1860” and dull column labels like “Hourly Wage,” “Person-hours per year,” “Annual total debt,” and “Cumulative debt at 3% interest.” The rest […]
