What Do White Americans Owe Black People?: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression

در این اثر تحریک‌آمیز و بسیار بدیع، پروفسور فلسفه، جیسون دی. هیل، ابعاد مختلف نژاد در آمریکای امروزی را بررسی می‌کند، اما مهم‌تر از همه، شکاف سیاه و سفید که در دهه گذشته به طور تصاعدی افزایش یافته است.

در نهایت، پاسخ به "سفیدپوستان آمریکایی چیست؟" در مورد اخلاقی بودن یا عملی بودن غرامت نیست، مثبت است. اقدام، یا دیگر طرح های توزیع مجدد. هیل پیش‌فرض جمع‌گرایانه پشت این بحث را رد می‌کند، در عوض مفاهیم مقصر، عدالت و انصاف را به‌عنوان مسئولیت‌های افراد مطرح می‌کند، نه گروه‌های نژادی یا قومی خودسرانه.

In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason D. Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.

Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending "whiteness." Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today's society.

Ultimately, the answer to "what do White Americans owe?" is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.