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Reparations for Slavery African Americas have tried to obtain
reparations for slavery since the nineteenth century. Many
leaders supported them throughout the twentieth century,
including W.E.B. Du Bois and Queen Mother Audrey Moore. Taken
together, the systematic political repression, economic
discrimination, racial abuses of the criminal system (including
blacks as both victims and defendants), brutal rending of black
families, forced health experiments while denying basic
healthcare, repression of literacy, and access to education
warrant recognition and monetary reparation. Paying reparations
would make us partners with others worldwide who condemn slavery
and be a step toward making blacks real citizens in America.
However, even with all of the recent writing on reparations, we
still have not really grappled with the question of sexual
reparations. Religious communities are particularly well poised
to exercise leadership on this question. Re