Barack Obama, Reparations, and America's Wealth Gap - The Atlantic

http://africandiasporaleaders.com/address-sir-hilary-beckles-chair-caricom-reparations-commission-naarcs-reparations-town-hall-atlanta/ The country’s first black president never pursued policies bold enough to close the racial wealth gap. Born in 1953, I am a child of the waning years of legal segregation in the United States. My parents, on the other hand, spent about 40 years of their lives under Jim Crow, and all of my grandparents lived most of their lives under official American apartheid. At the time of Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, my mother and all four of my grandparents were deceased. But my father was alive and well—and absolutely thrilled to http://africandiasporaleaders.com/address-sir-hilary-beckles-chair-caricom-reparations-commission-naarcs-reparations-town-hall-atlanta/
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