By KaliMaa Free Do you want to hear a crazy reparation story? After the Haitian revolution in 1807, former French colonists were compensated up to $300 for each enslaved person who was freed. In total, Haiti was ordered to pay 21 billion dollars, which would be equivalent to about 522.58 billion dollars in 2024, in […]
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The Truth About That 40 Acres
Say Something Real Some Blacks Actually Received the Promised Land By Michelle Bryant For most of my life, I’ve heard the idiom “40 Acres and A Mule”. In the Black community, the phrase always represented a broken promise and the fact that America would never make good on reparations due to formerly enslaved Africans. However, […]
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Can Statistics Help Pay the Black American (Afrodescendant) Reparations Bill?
BlackEconomics.org® Introduction The purpose of this report brief explores whether and how statistics can help pay the Black American (Afrodescendant) Reparations bill should the nation ever agree to such a payment. To clarify, we support the following outcomes: Development of a comprehensive Reparations value; as the most culpable party, the US Government should pay that […]
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Can Crime Pay the Black American (Afrodescendant) Reparations Bill?
BlackEconomics.org® Self-conceit may cause humans to think, speak, and decide prematurely without sufficient and careful consideration. We imagine ourselves more knowledgeable than we ought to think. Pointing the finger at self, a guilty plea is entered here. Case in point: Certain opposing individuals and groups reject out of hand the Reparations idea. Fundamental economic principles […]
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A Direct Measure of a Black American Reparations Amount
BlackEconomics.org® B. B. Robinson, Ph.D. Introduction This report brief presents a new estimate of a Black American Reparations amount that the US Government (USG) should consider when negotiating a Reparations agreement. The USG is singled out because it is widely agreed that no other party was, or is, more culpable in the historical and ongoing […]
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Time to Search Ourselves
BlackEconomics.org® Do you know who you are? Really? Consider these questions in the context of an unexpected surge in Black American and global interest in Reparations. This analysis considers these questions in in light of a new 2023 book edited by Darity, Mullen, and Hubbard, The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. BlackEconomics.org […]
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Reparations and the Contributions of Lazy Economists
BlackEconomics.org® We are often reminded of the “Chicago School” adage: “If it exists, then it must be efficient; otherwise, it wouldn’t exist.” To prove true, this saying must rest, inter alia, on the following premises: • The “existence” was manufactured by economic agents for which the “existence” is efficient. • The economic agents manufactured the […]
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A GD Saturday Can Kickstart Reparations
BlackEconomics.org® Black Americans, who believe that Repara-tions are due, know that there are numerous efforts afoot to secure Reparations in one form or another. Presumably, we can agree that a more unified strategy should enable us to experience more success in wresting Reparations from the prevailing system of things. This brief essay will provide an […]
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South Asian Immigration: Implications for Black America
BlackEconomics.org® In “Welcoming Black South Asians into the Black World,” BlackEconomics.org highlighted possible benefits of a favorable relationship between Black Americans, other Black people of the world, and South Asians, who are essentially Black people. Unfortunately, a closer look at the evolving nature of South Asians’ immigration to the US does not cast a warm […]
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It’s Time for America to Pay What They Owe
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor In 2019, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.” McConnell’s statements which were made during the annual Juneteenth observance in the country struck a lot […]