Editor’s note: Twelve months on from the killing of George Floyd, The Economist is publishing a series of articles, films, podcasts, data visualisations and guest contributions on the theme of race in America. Among them is a piece offering a different view on reparations.
WE MUST BEGIN with a disclaimer: we enthusiastically support reparations for black American descendants of persons enslaved in America, but we cringe at the phrase “slavery reparations”. We begin the case for redress with slavery, but we extend it to include the near-century-long era of legal segregation and white terror campaigns that followed (best known, with blithe understatement, as the “Jim Crow” era), and the atrocities that continue today: mass incarceration; police executions of unarmed black people; sustained credit, housing and employment discrimination; and the immense black-white wealth disparity. Black American descendants of the enslaved have borne and continue to bear the undue burden o
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College Student Convicted for Role in International Fraud Conspiracy
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KANSAS CITY, KAN. –
Oyindamola Akinrinola, 23, of Lawrence, Kansas, has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in Nigerian fraud schemes that targeted victims across the United States.
“Akinrinola and her co-conspirator in Nigeria victimized individuals, several elderly, through a variety of online scams,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. “She now faces time in federal prison for her crimes. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of fraud schemes like these, no matter where they originate. I also take this conviction as an opportunity to reiterate to all Kansans the vulnerability of our senior citizens to scams and con artists, who prey upon them. We must all be vigilant to protect our parents, grandparents, elderly relatives, friends and neighbors from such frauds and fraudsters.”