Good Law | Bad Law - Reparations for Slavery: A Conversation w/ Thomas Craemer

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Should there be reparations for slavery?

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Dr. Thomas Craemer, of the University of Connecticut, to discuss reparations. An Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UConn, Thomas’ teaching and research interests include race relations, public opinion and survey research, race related policies, diversity and inclusion, and slavery reparations. Originally from Germany, Thomas’ interest in racial attitudes was shaped by his experiences growing up in Germany as he and his country struggled to come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust.

Thomas brings a unique perspective to today’s conversation as he shares his personal experiences, as the discussion covers the Holocaust Reparation Pension, considerations for slavery reparations, reparations for Japanese-Americans who were placed in concentration camps during WWII, white supremacy and Black Lives Matter, systematic racism, responsibility, and more.

What are the steps to our country and its people holding themselves accountable for the horrific crimes of slavery?

Inspired by his own coming-to-terms with the Holocaust, Thomas has written extensively on reparations for slavery. His groundbreaking 2015 article, Estimating Slavery Reparations (Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 96.), put real numbers to the cost of reparations, projecting a very conservative total of $14 trillion dollars in 2009, or $19 trillion in today’s dollars. His paper on “Implicit Closeness to Blacks, Support for Affirmative Action, Slavery Reparations, and Vote Intentions for Barack Obama in the 2008 Elections” received the International Society of Political Psychology’s Robert Sigel Award in 2010 and was published in 2014 in Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Listen in to learn more!

To learn more about Dr. Craemer, please visit his bio page at UConn here.

To check out the book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William Darity and Kristen Mullen, please click here.

Host: Aaron Freiwald

Guest: Dr. Thomas Craemer

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