Op-Ed: Want Stronger Black Families? Invest In Black Fathers

Reparations are not a handout—they are a moral debt. A long-overdue return on the centuries of stolen labor, stolen land and stolen lives that built this nation’s wealth while locking Black families out of it. Any serious investment in justice must include reparations that, at minimum, eliminate the racial wealth gap between Black and white families. The federal government is both the architect and the only entity capable of paying this long-overdue debt. It built white wealth through the Homestead Act, the GI Bill, mortgage subsidies, redlining, segregation and mass incarceration—while systematically disinvesting from Black communities at every turn.

We need guaranteed income programs for system-impacted Black men and fathers—unconditional cash support that restores dignity, stability and the space to parent with purpose.

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