The Role Of Slavery Reparations In The United States

Reparations have been used before in many situations, and have both worked and failed. These slavery reparations should take a social policies form. If someone were to give individual checks to all the descendants of slaves there would be many issues, how would they find all the descendants of the millions of slaves born and brought into the United States , and where would the money needed come from? The most effective way is a “ financial reparation should be paid not to individuals but lumped together into a fund dedicated to improving the lives of African Americans today”. They should do this because they do not know what these individuals will spend the money on and if the goal is to help them, the most effective way is to have a fund.
With the fund African Americans can receive a better education and receive scholarships for a bright future. They could also improve black owned businesses with the fund, “In addition, it might support endeavors such as day-care facilities, job training, and drug treatment programs to help improve the quality of life for African Americans trapped in poverty”. The fund would be the best way to use reparations because it works best in this situation. There were unfortunately so many slaves that it would be difficult to pay each one back also they did not hold many records of whom the slaves were which would also make it difficult to pay each one back.