‘Buying Food and Paying Rent … Is Not Reparations’: Online Group Offering Help to Black People Faces Criticism for Calling Work ‘Reparations’
Who gets to determine what form of reparations are appropriate? It’s a question many scholars and activists have tried to answer for years. The uptick in white-led online groups issuing payments to Black people under the rubric of reparations has some people in the African-American community concerned. “Buying food and paying rent does not come close…