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.”
Department of African & African American Studies
