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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised reparations have not centered on Jim Crow (segregation, redlining, etc.)

Victims are still alive or their descendants are easily traced.

Much more recent.

More White folks benefitted from this.

Many of the arguments against slavery reparations fall apart or do not apply when it’s Jim Crow reparations . [/quote]

Probably because there are still judges/clerks/politicians or their protégés that are still influencing policy. For example, it wasn’t until 2019 that Alexandria Va. dismissed criminal charges against 5 Black men who held a peaceful library sit in during August of 1939 to try to desegregate public libraries- 80 years later. The last school to officially desegregate was Cleveland High School in 2016 in Cleveland, Mississippi. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/17/478389720/after-50-year-legal-struggle-mississippi-school-district-ordered-to-desegregate

Everyone knows that “good schools” are generally part of the definition of a great neighborhood in real estate valuations…there are so many aspects of racism that need to be unraveled in this country. Living in the DC “bubble” doesn’t exempt any of us from doing our part to bring awareness to how much work needs to be done in all realms of society.
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