Local reparations programs in a dozen cities and California have renewed hopes for national compensation for slavery. But despite a national reckoning over race, two-thirds of Americans remain opposed to cash payments to descendants of slaves
"Part of it is an education, it's a walk through history," she says."It's a recognition that, okay, you may not have had anything to do with slavery, but ... your white grandfather got an FHA [Federal Housing Administration] insured loan. My grandfather couldn't because he was Black."for Japanese Americans who'd been interned during World War II.
"Those hearings had a major impact on public perception of what happened during the war, how Japanese Americans were affected by it, and why redress might be appropriate," Yang says.the idea of reparations. But Yang says public opinion overall was not much of a factor. Japanese Americans at the time were only .5% of the population, mostly in California and Hawaii.
If that or another program is deemed successful, he says, perhaps a national roadmap will emerge. But Yale researcher Kraus says they could also prompt backlash and reinforce misperceptions about the wealth gap. Nteta already sees a general backlash. He says the debate over critical race theory and how to teach race in schools is"part and parcel of the debate about reparations," and yet another challenge to building support for them.
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