REPARATIONS: An Issue Whose Time Has Come
Nkechi Taifa |
TEDxUStreetWomen
• April 2022
Reparations. The issue is hot, scalding, and once unthinkable by mainstream America. Yet, it poses only a question. Does the United States government, as well as other culpable entities, owe reparations to the descendants of Africans once held as slaves? Nkechi Taifa – attorney, scholar, and author of the upcoming book, Reparations on Fire: How and Why its Spreading Across America, answers that question with formidable facts. Her powerful talk, sprinkled with a personal journey, also describes ongoing legacies from the enslavement era visible today. Reparations for Black people, once fringe, has now captured the imagination of faith, academic and civic groups, as well as corporations, cities, states, and the federal government. Taifa shows unequivocally that reparations is an issue whose time has come, and fundamental to a long-overdue national reckoning of race in America.