*An upcoming episode of Donald Glover’s hit drama series “Atlanta,” hilariously depicts an office scene of two white people discussing reparations for slavery.
“It’s cleared the way for personal litigation. Now they can look you up and force you to pay the price,” one of the white males says, as reported by TheWrap. The two continue, “Yeah, it’s scary. I’m looking at my family tree right now to make sure I’m in the clear. Everybody else is, too.” Per the outlet, the men then glance over at their Black coworkers who are laughing. “Lucky them. Not a care in the world.”
Watch the scene via the Twitter video below.
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I just can’t say enough good things about Donald Glover’s Atlanta. The recent episode about reparations was just stunning, and this scene really hit hard. https://t.co/5uAtQcm38M
— alessandro fillari (@afillari) April 12, 2022
The reparations scene had MSNBC host Tiffany Cross and her panel on “The Cross Connection” laughing as they discussed the episode over the weekend.
One of Cross’ panelists, activist and author Tim Wise said, “It is brilliant. It is genius. And as Jason said, it is sort of the nightmare scenario that my people have when it comes to this, right? It’s this idea that we’re going to have our water bill, our cable bill and oh god, there’s the Black people bill — I totally forgot to pay that one last month.”
Wise continued, “To the extent that it tweaks that kind of bizarre interpretation of what Black folks are talking about when they talk about reparations or what it would look like, I think it does its job right, but what I really do appreciate about the episode is that it demonstrates the way that the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage is the ghost in the room of the national house…It doesn’t just haunt those who were harmed by it, it haunts those who were elevated by it.”
Wise, who has penned several anti-racism books, said the goal of reparations is to correct a “collective harm.”
“It will be done by the collective. It will be done by the state. It was the state that enshrined enslavement. It was the state that enshrined it and kept it protected by the Constitution. It’s the state that would pay. As long as we have these parallel conversations — one is about the moral indebtedness…the other is about the practical application — then we’ll be all right,” he said.
“But I got to talk my people down off a ledge now,” he concluded, “because this is so well done that white folks are like, ‘See, this is what they’re going to do. They’re going to show up at our house.’”
Watch the panel discussion via the YouTube clip below:
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