Reparations Aren’t About Equity — They’re About This
Are you a racist?
This is a question you’ve probably never truly asked yourself.
And for obvious reasons. No upstanding member of society wants to be lumped into the same category as Nazis and Klansmen.
But even if you don’t personally consider yourself a racist, that doesn’t mean you aren’t one. The mere color of your skin might engender you to certain privileges that you might not be fully aware of.
In recent years a new political ideology has emerged focusing solely on race. It argues that one race is culpable for the systemic discrimination of another. Even if you don’t personally consider yourself a racist, depending on the color of your system, you might actually be one.
The solution to this new ideology is collective guilt. Rather than finding equity as it promises, anti-racism confronts the accepted historical narrative with shame and demands recompense for centuries of abuse.
The people who benefit from discrimination shouldn’t just admonish themselves for their privilege. According to some anti-racists, they should pay for it.
Reparations is a policy of wealth redistribution that aims to right the wrongs of systemic racism. In his recent film Am I Racist? Matt Walsh dives into the topic of…
