A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations
PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
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1of9Former University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Edwin Driver is interviewed at his home, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in South Hadley, Mass. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council s adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town.Charles Krupa/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9Past Amherst, Mass., area residents Henry Jackson, center, Lt. Frazar Stearns, left, and Anna Reed Goodwin, right, are featured on the Amherst Community History Mural, as seen through the adjacent West Cemetery fence, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Amherst, Mass. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council s adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town.Charles Krupa/APShow Mo
Minorities in Texas are among least vaccinated
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Texas has administered nearly seven million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but Black Texans, Asian Texans and other minorities are significantly less vaccinated across the state.
âBy the fact that the mask mandate is changing puts us at more risk than the rest of the community,â said Greater Killeen Community Center Medical Director Dr. Don Daniels.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, only 2.3% of Asian Central Texans, 6.7% of Black Central Texans, and nearly 8% of Hispanic Central Texans make up those vaccinated in Bell County compared to 45% of white Central Texans. Nearly 30% of vaccinations are unknown.
With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvardâs director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?
Former University of California, Los Angeles, historian Roger McGrath writes:
âThe reparationists claim that the United States must compensate the descendants of slaves for 400 years of slavery. Since the United States was not established until 1788 (when the required three-fourths majority of the states approved the Constitution), slavery existed for only 77 years before the 13th Amendment abolished it.â McGrath also writes about the number of whites who owned slaves in the January issue of Chronicles Magazine:
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