Reparations

Join your host Hermene Hartman as we talk about reparations. Reparations are talked about a lot but what does it mean? Reparations mean payment. In this case, payment was supplied to the descendants of Black Americans who worked for white businesses for centuries as slaves to build this country. Should Black people be compensated for the slave labor their ancestors endured in the past? We talk about it today with our guests Mr Steven Rogers, Author of A Letter to my White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now To Help The Black Community, and Mr John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation. We kick off our talk with a discussion about how the problems we have in America today between white people and Black people relate primarily to economics; specifically how state and federal governments have done everything they can to enrich white people whilst impoverishing and exploiting Black people. We discuss various examples of this in action, including various rules and laws that are and have been imposed on black people but not white people. We talk about various ways that we could work to resolve these issues including reviewing our education systems and encouraging philanthropy to support black communities. We talk about what reparations could look like & how it could be achieved. Our guests provide a succinct breakdown of the actual numbers that could represent legitimate reparations for the centuries of slavery and opression that black people have endured in America. We discuss previous examples of reparations that have been paid to other communities including how the Jewish community was paid reparations by the German government following the holocaust & how white people were paid reparations following the civil war. Join us as we cover all this and much more on another enlightening episode of the N’DIGO Studio Podcast. Guests Mr. Steven Rogers Author of A Letter to my White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now To Help The Black Community https://www.stevensrogers.com/ Mr. John Palfrey, President, MacArthur Foundation https://www.macfound.org/ N'DIGO Studio Supported by The Chicago Community Trust MacArthur Foundation The Field Foundation Of Illinois Special Thanks Hyatt Tyronne Stoudemire Credits Host/Executive Producer Hermene Hartman Technical Producer/Editor Erik Hammond Film Company Clear Vision Multimedia Associate Producer Joi Mitchell Administration Sylvester Cosby Make-Up By Landis Cosmetics Hair Stylist Dr.LaQuaShon Sound Editor Scott Stronach Intro/Outro Music Christian Standring - Is There A Doctor In The House the song is published by Mr.Christian Music (BMI) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.