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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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For our final episode of season 3, we take a look at how reckoning with our history, collectively, and personally, can help us move forward. Closing the racial wealth gap might not be possible anytime soon. But if the U.S. wants to seriously tackle these injustices, it might need to start with the truth. A few years ago, Bloomberg colleague, Claire Suddath explored her own family’s connection to slavery and a plantation in Mississippi. Jackie sits down with Claire to explore what it was like to reckon with that past.
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1:03.0 | SBS-S-Singapore. If the U.S. were to seriously tackle the racial wealth gap, and all the injustices past and present that have led to today's economic inequalities, it might not actually start with reparations, |
1:30.0 | but with something much simpler, a full reckoning of our history, the truth. |
1:36.3 | Truth commissions can be the starting point for much broader national reform and a national |
1:43.2 | effort to deal with the enduring legacies of past violence |
1:48.6 | and current violence. |
1:50.3 | Carrie Wiggum is a professor at Binghamton University's Institute for Genocide and Mass |
1:54.9 | Atrocity Prevention. He also runs a similar center at the Auschwitz Institute. |
2:00.5 | He points out that truth commissions are a relatively new phenomenon, a lot newer than ideas about reparations or restitution. |
2:08.5 | They're the first step in what scholars call transitional justice, a way for countries to deal with their own large-scale human rights abuses. |
2:16.7 | It's built on four different pillars. |
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