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Reparations:
Lifting Up Black Families
"From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across
​the country were largely cut out of the legitimate
home-mortgage market."
-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case For REparations, The Atlantic
When white people ask what they can do to help stop the cycle of poverty and crises stemming from centuries of white supremacy in the United States and lift up Black families, how they can fight white supremacy on behalf of their fellow Black citizens, or what they should do about economic inequity and systemic racism that keeps Black people from thriving, our answer always boils down to this simple phrase:

Pay reparations.
"The truth is that there is a strong rationale for renumeration grounded in airtight economic principals at the the heart of the free market system: access to capital. This precept is so essential that it gives our modern economic way-of-life its name. We call it capitalism."
-Imara jones, for colorlines
White people are in arrears when it comes to Black fellow citizens who are struggling under the burdens placed upon them by generations of mass incarceration, displacement, land theft, and racist violence including mass murder. White citizens of conscience can begin to repay that debt by designating a portion of their income to the cause of paying reparations to Black families for whom a little can mean a lot, especially in a crisis.
"In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land valued at tens of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism. 'Some of the land taken from black families has become a country club in Virginia,' the AP reported, as well as 'oil fields in Mississippi' and 'a baseball spring training facility in Florida.'"
-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case For REparations, The Atlantic
Join us as we direct your funds and our energy into helping Black parents get ahead and stay ahead so Black children can grow up safe, secure, housed, and well-fed. Help us take some of the weight off the shoulders of Black people so families can thrive.
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
-James Baldwin

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