Show Me the Money: Reparations Scholar Dr. Darity Is Not a Fan of Reparations Bill

It has been widely reported that William Darity, one of the nation’s leading scholars on reparations, thinks that Black American descendants of slaves should be compensated for centuries of unpaid labor that made America a superpower.

Less known, however, is that Darity, an economist, and director of Duke University’s Samuel Dubois Cook Center for Equity, is not a fan of House Bill 40—decades-old, proposed legislation that calls on Congress to form a commission to study and develop a reparations plan.  

Darity, an acclaimed scholar and co-author of From Here To Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, reached out to the INDY following the publication of a story last week that announced a research team Darity is leading received a major grant to study the feasibility of reparations. Read more here.