You are invited to participate in
A CONVERSATION ABOUT REPARATIONS,
Led by Dr. Darryl Heller, former Director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center,
and past President of the Community Forum for Economic Justice.
The idea of providing reparations for the oppression inflicted upon Black people dates back to right after the end of the Civil War. For decades it's mostly been an idea debated outside the mainstream of American political thought. Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates reintroduced it to the mainstream with an article, "The Case for Reparations," in the June 2014 issue of Atlantic Monthly.
From the article: “Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Recently, several Democratic presidential candidates have said they support some form of reparations and Texas Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill, HR 40, that would create a commission to study reparations.
Please join us next Saturday to discuss this important issue.
WHEN: Saturday, May 11, 2019 — 1 pm
WHERE: 1040 West Washington St., South Bend
SPONSORS: Community Forum for Economic Justice
Civil Rights Heritage Center, Indiana Univ. South Bend
