Introducing: Reparations: The Big Payback

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Preparations. Hi, I'm Eric Alexander and I'm Whitney Down. No,
I'm Whitney Dow. Sorry, I'm Eric Alexander and we want
to tell you about our new podcast, Reparations, The Big Payback.
You might know Erica from Living Single or Get Out,
or seeing one of Whitney's documentaries on race, such as
Two Towns of Jasper or Whiteness Project. Race is the

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most volatile topic in the United States. The legacy of
slavery is all around us, shaping every aspect of the
way we live our lives. In this country. Black Americans
have been systematically excluded from reaping the benefits of their
citizenship and subject to persecution, discrimination, and worse. When I

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see these photographs of these mobs of white people and
children at the scene of lynchings, and I wonder what
is the said being passed on to Those children were
passed over for jobs, harassed, and even killed by the
criminal justice system. The police officer who murdered my son
was getting a sixth figure salary, so he was getting

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rewarded for killing my son. What if reparations could change
all that. Black people want justice, and part of that
justice is that you should not be able to come
and walk by a slave market marker and not be
moved by it, or at least have to reckon with
it or see it. We want you to imagine a

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world where there has been atonement for the past, a
world where reparations are real. We'll take you to the
first slave market in New York and make the economic
case for reconciliation. We should get truth, we should get
some money, and then after we do all that, we
should have justice for people who have done us wrong.
And we'll meet people black and white who think reparations

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is a horrible idea, both morally and economically. Some poor family,
wherever they may be, they need help, but we're not
going to give them help because their skin color. If
we were to pay reparations today, we would insult many
Black Americans by putting a price on the suffering of
their ancestors. Will explore what reparations might look like in
practice with some of the world's leading experts. Some folks

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may want checks, but what we're really talking about is
closing that wealth gap and making people whold go. Behind
the scenes in Congress, HR Fort is, in fact the
response of the United States of America long overdue, and
visit a town in the Midwest that's past. The first
reparations bill in American history, and just from color from media,

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The Black Effect Podcast Network, and I Heart Radio in
association with Best Case Studios Reparations The Big Payback, premiering
February eighteen. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Our