Guess it’s time to share my most “controversial” opinion. I believe in reparations. I believe reparations for slavery are too late to be done fairly. But there are many atrocities from the 1960s, the 1980s , and so forth. https://twitter.com/properlyzuri/status/1327391349373624325

Direct descendants of lynching victims are still alive. Civil rights activists still walk among us. The people who committed acts of racial violence are still alive. We don’t even have to go back 100 years.

Various American black communities have been destroyed or had their wealth opportunities stolen from them. Their children and grandchildren still suffer.

Here’s North Nashville’s story: https://twitter.com/properlyzuri/status/1270684760562688001

TL/DR: The economic advancement experienced on Jefferson Street, black Nashville’s Broadway, was halted when I-40 was constructed in the middle of the community. Many believe this was done to slow integration. A generation later, NN saw one of the highest incarceration rates.