Health care, subsidized housing, and welfare are just a few of the many programs available to people with low or no income. The disadvantages to African Americans that slavery left behind are a problem of the past. Many African Americans are well off. The problems they face today are brought about by high crime rates, family lifestyles, and dependence on welfare. In The Case for Reparations, Coates mentions Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson’s findings of incarceration rates between two neighborhoods. He …show more content…
He makes it seem as if if you do not think reparations should be paid then you must be a racist, white supremacist. That just isn’t the case. Terrible, horrific things happened to slaves, but when the United States government is already trillions of dollars in debt we shouldn’t go giving money out to people that feel almost no repercussions from the slavery that existed here hundreds of years ago. This is money that would coming from tax payers. It wouldn’t be going to former slaves and it wouldn’t make the situation better. Reparations would not fix the damage done in the