America's Reckoning
Lisa Cook discusses the need for America to come to terms with its history, including the complicity of institutions in benefiting from slavery. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging this history and proposes studying the possibility of reparations. Cook also highlights the need to remove Confederate monuments that were meant to intimidate and substitute for lynching. Ultimately, she hopes for a national reckoning similar to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, focusing on bringing more people into economic opportunity.In this clip
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