Reparations Monograph

INTRODUCTION 

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates calls for reparations to compensate Blacks for the financial and emotional residuals of slavery.  However, other journalists and economists present data that suggests the residuals are the fallout of federal programs that withheld benefits from households in which a male figure was present, in effect penalizing cohabitation, and causing a fifty year progressive slump in Black marriage rates.  Consequently more and more Black children are growing up separated from their fathers. In the War on Poverty this is the policy equivalent of friendly fire.

It is well known that loss of a secure relationship in childhood causes separation anxiety and distrust. The separation welfare children experience is no exception. The youngsters from these fatherless households find it difficult to form the trusting relationships—attachments-- necessary for school and life success. In this paper I argue that society has an obligation to repair and provide reparations to the Black communities devastated by these heedless welfare practices.
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Therefore I propose the formation of charter schools staffed by teachers and administrators trained to recognize and manage separation trauma disability, The Reparations Charter School, supported in part by voluntary contributions solicited in the name of reparations.