African American Reparation Case Study

Similarly, in the case of reparations for African Americans, if a number to make up for reparations could not be reached, the simple study of the history of maltreatment of women is important because it shows the government is aware that there is problem on how women are treated. Just as Coates talked about altering the way Americans look at our nation’s history, the reparation for women would be rewiring how society looks at rape. To teach people that it is never the women’s fault, but the clearly disturbed men. Now in both cases of reparations, that of the African Americans and women, there is a reparation based on the wage gap. The wage gap between African Americans and white Americans is not changed since nineteen-seventies partly due
wage discrimination based on race and economical outcomes of African Americans in poor segregated neighborhoods (Coates). The segregation of African Americans through polices that denied them mortgages created poor black neighborhoods. In the employment field, black college graduates suffer a higher rate of unemployment than white college graduates (Coates). In addition, African Americans without any criminal record have the same chance of getting hired at white American with a criminal record (Coates). All of this discrimination started and kept an income gap between African Americans and white Americans. Coates writes about calculating a price for reparations by multiplying the number of African Americans in the United States by the difference in the white and in white and black per capita income (Coates). Whatever the number calculated out to be, is dispersed to African Americans by a reparations programs for an extended period for time. The money that goes to African Americans would help close the chasm of the wage gap created by discrimination. Also money to the black community would help those who have denied a fair salary because of their race, thus reducing the poverty rate of African Americans.