State efforts to offer reparations are problematic because they’re a piecemeal solution to a national problem, said William Darity, a Duke University economics professor, who is heading up the national team of academics exploring reparations. State resolutions should endorse the development of a national program, Darity said.
“The culpable party is the United States government,” said Darity, who is black. “They created the legal and authority structure to allow for these atrocities.”
