REPARATIONS IN AMERICA ARE A MUST!

In 2022, Howard University School of Social Work hosted Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the 1619 Project, for an intellectual sit-in.

Jones argued for paying reparations to Africans who are descendants of enslaved people in the United States. She called out the US government for saying it could not afford reparations. Still, it can print money for military spending and pandemic relief packages for businesses.

The key takeaway from this intriguing discussion was, in her own words, that 'slavery was a system of economic exploitation and racism is what justified it.' Moreover, she chided some who use the term 'Jim Crow' to refer to a system of discriminatory practices after US slavery ended, saying creating a class of exploited people based on race should be referred to as apartheid.