127. Do Whites Today Owe Blacks Money for Slavery?
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Do Whites Today Owe Blacks Money for Slavery?
Should black Americans who never met a slave get paid money from white Americans who never owned one? The battle over reparations is so contentious, it’s even divided black civil rights activists.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast |
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| 0:24.6 | Today a controversial and important topic. It has to do with whether the descendants |
| 0:30.3 | of slaves should get paid by white people who never owned or met a slave. |
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| 1:19.3 | Today you're going to hear from two sides in the great reparations debate. The discussion |
| 1:24.8 | over whether white Americans today owe black Americans for things that took place between |
| 1:31.2 | and among their ancestors. Well, it might end up that people whose ancestors were on the |
| 1:36.6 | opposite side of what's assumed today would end up paying and or benefiting. It gets |
| 1:42.2 | confusing as you'll hear and that's part of the debate. First, we'll hear from a slave |
| 1:47.0 | descendant named Melisanda Short-Colombe who advocates for reparations being paid black |
| 1:52.6 | Americans today. Then we'll hear from a civil rights activist named Robert Woodson who's |
| 1:58.1 | black and thinks reparations is a terrible idea. First, here's Melissa Short-Colombe. |
| 2:05.8 | I was involved and became involved because of the statement that Jack the Joy are made |
| 2:13.2 | in September of 2016 that descendants would be offered or conferred this legacy status. |
| 2:23.0 | If you meet the requirements to come to Georgetown University as a student, I had some concerns |
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