Randall robinson the debt summary worksheets
Randall robinson the debt summary worksheets
Randall robinson the debt summary!
American Reparations?
Robinson's new book asks "What is Owed to Blacks?"
Randall Robinson's book of nonfiction, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (Dutton, 2000), is about remembering.
Robinson wants equality. He wants to make the American dream possible for everyone, not just those with a long-standing historical advantage.
For 264 years, American men of European ancestry traveled to Africa, stole Africans, and brought them back to America to work until they died.
These stolen men and women received no rights and no money and they could not leave.
Randall robinson the debt summary worksheets pdf
Centuries passed. When slavery was finally outlawed, the discrimination continued. Racist ideas sank deep into laws, attitudes, and assumptions. Many continue to this day.
A Whitewashed Past
The Debt opens in Washington D.C.'s famous Capitol building.
Robinson stands among tourists looking in awe at the gigantic U.S. history fresco. Then he realizes that the impressive piece of government-funded art celebrating two centurie