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Introducing: What Is Owed?

Introducing: What Is Owed?

Update: 2024-02-29
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An episode from a new GBH News podcast about reparations: "When a City Tries to Heal Itself"

Boston, a city entrenched in the history of the American Revolution, creates a task force to explore the city’s history of slavery and economic discrimination and to consider reparations for Black citizens. The effort is delicately balanced to navigate political challenges – and yet it is immediately beset with delay and mismanaging, leading some city residents to wonder whether Boston is really serious.

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Credits:

Host, Producer and Writer: Saraya Wintersmith

Senior Producer: Jerome Campbell

Editorial Assistant: Mara Mellits

Editor: Paul Singer

Production oversight: Lee Hill

Mixing & Sound Design: David Goodman and Gary Mott

Theme Song and original music: Malik Williams

Artwork: Matt Welch and Mamie-Hawa Bawoh

Project Manager: Meiqian He

Managing Producer for GBH Podcasts: Devin Maverick Robins

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ncooty

Ugh, another podcast that treats race and socio-economic status as the same thing. They should've started by explaining how injustice is transferred across generations via pigmentation. That is, why are people who never were enslaved due reparations? Economic disadvantage isn't pigmented. If economic disadvantage is the problem, then we should address systems of economic disadvantage for everyone, not just people with particular pigmentation or ancestry. And why not start with American Indians?

Mar 3rd
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