Economist William Darity has spent the last 30 years trying to figure out how a slavery reparations program could close the racial wealth gap. Black Americans currently hold $800,000 less in wealth than their white counterparts. Darity believes this wealth gap doesn’t only stem from slavery, but also decades of white violence in the form of Jim Crow, mass incarceration and police brutality.

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