Question about pushing forward

DaveXA said
Quick question. I recall you posting sources for the topic of reparations. Can you list that again here? I've stated before that I'm open to the idea and would like to read up on actual proposals that have been made. I know the bulk of the topic is ultimately political, but it's foundational enough to at least introduce it here. As with most massive government programs, the devil will be in the details.

I don't know how close or how far we are and whether there's political will in Congress to introduce legislation on it, but I support some sort of financial payments. I have no idea what the criteria would be are in terms of who would qualify and how much, so I'd like to read up and see what ideas are out there.

Sandy Darity, Jr - an economist at Duke - is probably who you want to start with. He is the foremost expert on the topic and started #ADOS (which you can also use to research beyond).

This is one place to start:

https://www.futurity.org/sandy-darity-reparations-2288202-2/
I also like the Coates Atlantic article - amazingly written and crafted. Stylistically impressive, even more than the content:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Finally, I there was talk about 'reparations' in the presentation that I attended yesterday and I'll just excerpt that part, because different panelists had different ideas about it:

Oye said
Reparations in society - discussions around education, material support. Attacking homelessness and houselessness and healthcare. These are bare expectations.

Reparations re: defunding in law enforcement - look at the funding agencies to transform punishment to rehabilitation. Moving away from punishment and torture designs to things that can work through knowledge and building up when possible

research partnerships established with police themselves - publicly funded support needs more access to publicly funded services, like education and the police. But the police are the most resistant to this

one example that was specifically cited was the disinclination and refusal to participate in studies to examine the efficacy of body camera usage in policing

The debates over Confederate Monuments - let's talk about not just taking down, but what merits going up. Why can't abolitionists be memorialized? This could be reparations. Because it's not just a discussion about what comes down but also what goes up. That's inspiring.

A police officer responsible for the torturing of over 100 Black men becoming part of the Chicago school curriculum, so that AP US History includes things like that and lynching - that history about these things exist. Lynchings as terrorism. The frame of "white criminality" is part of curriculum reparations