Daniel Philpott (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), A Christian Case for Racial Reparations:

Nationwide therapeutic for the persistent wounds of racism, America’s authentic sin, may be superior by way of a nationwide apology, reparations and forgiveness. The frequent apply of apologies and reparations world wide prior to now technology present precedent for such measures. Christianity’s educating of reconciliation and accompanying notions of sin, repentance, forgiveness, and atonement present a powerful ethical foundation for these measures and resonate with the rationales by way of which the USA’s best champions of civil rights and equality have fought towards racism and slavery. As a result of racism and slavery had been supported with the sanction of the state, within the title of the collective physique, measures of restore could now be carried out by the state, within the title of the collective physique. Questions of who pays, who receives, and what type reparations take are necessary ones and may be answered adequately. Via collective apology, reparations, and forgiveness, the USA would enact and renew its nationwide covenant, appearing within the custom of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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