Black Like Who?

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It's one of the thorniest questions in any theoretical plan for reparations for black people: Who should get them? On this episode, we dig into some ideas about which black people should and shouldn't receive a payout — which one expert estimates would cost at least $10 trillion.

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0:00.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.
0:02.6	I'm Jean Demby and this is Code Switch.
0:05.0	From NPR.
0:06.2	This week we're talking about this big unwieldy category
0:10.3	that we normally just call Black.
0:12.1	Identify as a Black male.
0:13.6	Identify as African American.
0:15.6	I regard myself as African because I'm a descendant of African.
0:18.8	I'm half Indian and half guinies.
0:22.2	It depends on the audience, but I'll say Black.
0:25.4	So ready.
0:29.7	We hit up some folks in St. Louis and outside the Black
0:32.3	Sonian here in DC where I am back when you know, we could
0:35.4	actually go outside.
0:37.0	Remember those days?
0:37.9	Oh, yeah.
0:38.5	That was like what a month ago.
0:40.1	The Housey Endays.
0:41.6	Black folks obviously describe themselves
0:43.3	in a bunch of different ways.
0:44.7	But throughout the course of American history,
0:47.2	Black folks have been officially referred to
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