Why Should Black Americans Get Reparations?

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People arrived in north america at least 12 thousand years ago. And people can make o what they want. We don't. People often bring that up to colhan jones points out that the us. Government pays, i didn't know this, fivei if it's true, five million dollars a year to holicost survivors living in America. But for me it would just be the rightful restoration. In the same way that the knots is stole jewelry and art works and paintings and houses andd all sorts f artifacts that belong to jews. If you can ostensibly point and say, that belongd to me, and you have proof of ownership, then should be returned.

In this conversation with Jason Hill based on his book What do White Americans Owe Black People? Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression, Shermer probes the philosopher on the arguments for and against reparations.

In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.

Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending “whiteness.” Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today’s society.

Ultimately, the answer to “what do White Americans owe?” is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.