Reparations is an issue about attempting to rectify a situation where an individual’s life has been impaired by a past injustice. The character of this injustice is that some institution benefited unjustly by taking something from the aggrieved party; it could have been taking their life, their ancestor’s life or taking resources from them to something of this nature. Reparations is an effort to look at these individuals and make them whole again in society, to make them a full citizen not marked by the past injustice. We are talking about how to create an even playing field which was made uneven by a legacy of enslavement, and was reflected in Jim Crow and in the kind of segregation that was made illegal until the 1960â
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