Reparations

¿What % of White Americans supports reparations - cash payments or education and job training programs for Black Americans who are descendants of slaves?

  1. How accurate was your prediction?

  2. Are you surprised by the answer?

  3. Why do you think there is such a huge difference in opinion on reparations between Black and White Americans?

  4. List another issue that you think would have such a wide racial divide in opinion?

  5. If Black Americans were to be paid reparations for over 300 years of slavery, almost a century of Jim Crow, and decades of mass incarceration, how much do you think each person should be paid?

  6. Descendants of holocaust victims have demanded reparations from Germany for Nazi atrocities. Would you support reparations to victims of the Holocaust who had their property or wealth stolen?

  7. In the comments section, explain your own personal opinion of whether the US government should offer reparations to Black Americans?


Action Extension

Go on change.org and start or sign a petition for or against reparations.


Learning Extension

Read The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's really provocative and interesting.

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