Even in these divided times, these is one unifying goal: justice for all.
But with the ongoing protest over racial injustice, there is an essential question: How do we right hundreds of years of wrongs?
Is there a policy or pronouncement that will achieve it?
There is now renewed call – from the California Legislative Black Caucus to BET founder Robert Johnson – for the idea of reparations. That is, money, from the government that has profited from slavery, to the descendants of those slaves.
Spectrum News 1 anchor Amrit Singh looks into the arguments for, and against.