Supporters of a House bill that would create a commission to study and develop reparations for African Americans are working to push the legislation forward, three decades after it was introduced.
Darity says the amount owed should be enough to eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States. “That gap amounts to approximately $840,000 per household, per Black and white household. That's the differential. If we were to try to convert that into an individual measure, it would be about $350,000 for Black or Black and white individual,” Darity told Yahoo News.
A longtime Los Angeles resident, Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22. , an assembly of reparations supporters, told Yahoo news that reparations means much more than providing money. It's also about community benefits that will help repair and rebuild the country, he said.
Still, experts say that deciding who will receive the reparations will be complicated, because not every African American may be entitled to them. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee at a press conference on HR 40 legislation on Capitol Hill on Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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