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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks Paperback – January 1, 2001

by Randall Robinson (Author)

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The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit.

In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. Drawing from research and personal experience, he shows that only by reclaiming their lost past and proud heritage can blacks lay the foundation for their future. And white Americans can make reparations for slavery and the century of racial discrimination that followed with monetary restitution, educational programs, and the kinds of equal opportunities that will ensure the social and economic success of all its citizens.

In a book that is both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to our nation to educate all Americans about the history of Africa and its people, Robinson makes a persuasive case for the debt white America owes blacks, and the debt blacks owe themselves.

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"Engaging...important...supports his attempts to reclaim African heitage and empower African-Americans." --The Washington Post

"Incisive...keenly observed...beautifully written." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Randall Robinson is the founder and president of TransAfrica, the organization that spearheaded the movement to influence U.S. policies toward international black leadership. He is the author of Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks and The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe To Each Other. Frequently featured in major print media, he has appeared on Charlie Rose, Today, Good Morning America, and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, among others.

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (January 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780452282100
ISBN-13: 978-0452282100
ASIN: 0452282101
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 106 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #792 in Books > History > Americas > United States > African Americans
- #897 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Specific Demographics > Minority Studies
- #2203 in Books > History > Africa

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Stephen A. Boni

The Debt is Excellent!

March 10, 2013

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The Debt is an outstanding and profound book. Randall Robinson is an exceptional writer who brings scholarship and poetic prose together in a brilliant analysis of racism in the United States. His analysis is spot-on and totally convincing. And his arguments for reparations are irrefutable! What ghastly revelations Mr. Robinson reveals to the reader of this magnificent book. Highly recommended reading, especially for white people, of which I am one. This is not only a great book about racism - I would consider it one of the great books of contemporary American Literature. I look forward to reading Mr. Robinson's other books and learning more about the Trans-Africa organization.

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John H. Armwood

An excellent book that should be required reading for every American ...

November 23, 2014

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An excellent book that should be required reading for every American college history student. It tells the history of the African American experience focusing on the narrative perspective of African Americans. It starts with African History before slavery, a subject that has been well documented but seldom read or seriously studied by European Americans. It makes a clear and inarguable argument for some form of reparations for the state sanctioned public and private wealth stolen from African Americans.

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American Slavery and the Founding Fathers

September 19, 2017

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This is a well written book about American racism and how slavery was at the genesis of the American Nation State. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, etc... were all racists who owned slaves and participated in the African American Holocaust. He also mentions the Native American Holocaust, however briefly. It could have more focus and direction. But, at its core, this book is a much need source to counter the American patriotic nationalistic propaganda in American textbooks and monuments.

He asks the ultimate question, how can blacks (and any minorities) look at the monuments of the so-called founding fathers with pride?

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Paul Lincolnhol

January 15, 2000

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This is a provocative book. It has a position to advocate and is written in that style. Robinson does, I believe, hold the moral high ground. I have been to Dachau, and I am mystified why America has drawn such a curtain over its history of slavery. We are all a combination of good and evil (at least Christianity teaches that -- as well as history), and we won't grow unless we acknowledge our own evils and make amends for them. That goes for societies as well as for individuals. African Americans have a better American pedigree than many, if not most, European Americans. After all, the majority of the ancestors of European Americans came here in the 19th and 20th Centuries, while the ancestors of almost all African Americans came here before that time. While the later arriving European Americans might not have personally participated in slavery (and may have even fought against it), they do owe it to African Americans, as their older American sisters and brothers, to participate in making them whole, and in giving them the respect they deserve precisely as Americans.

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A Look from the other side

September 14, 2013

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Take the time to read this book, especially if you are a liberal. Helps look at the concervative side of the argument from a thoughful logical view point and many valid points made. Not everything is black and white, there is much grey.

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The Debt - What America Owes to Blacks

January 14, 2000

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Randall Robinson is a brave, brave man. A fine and fearless historian. A passionate historian. Reading him isn't about agreeing or not. Reading him is about experiencing his perceptions and feelings and waking up to more consciousness and more responsibility.
I fear that this book will be treasured among a too small circle of readers. I find that people are embarrassed by this idea. People who hear of the idea of the debt usually say, Well I don't know if I agree with him.
It is okay to disagree ... because the book is about so much more than reparation. This is excellent writing ... a powerful beautiful stunning work ... literature and history and poetry and music and social provocation.
Robinson might be talking about investing some reparation money in educational opportunity for black people, and this might be controversial, but for me, reading this book is feeling strongly that it is not white people Robinson wants to waken but black people ... white people may be indifferent, oblivious, and evasive ... but black people haven't had a paradigm safe enough to realize their own predicament. This is Robinson's concern ... And his work is wondrous to read. The Debt should be required reading wherever reading is required.
I fear it will be overlooked after the fashion of Amistad and Beloved ... and this would be a shame ... for there's a stirring excellence in this work and it is a privilege to experience it.
I recommend this book to anyone who can read ... and if you know someone who cannot read, this book can be read out loud.

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February 14, 2017

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Very Interesting

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June 24, 2015

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This book is a few years old now and it's still timely. Prof. Robinson is a rare voice in the Civil Rights symposium in that he is at once objectively erudite and relatable because of his transparency. This book has definitely aided my thinking on the subject of comparative human rights.

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