Dorothy Brown
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112 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
Dorothy Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I said, wait a minute.
We've paid reparations for lynching, but not Black Americans.
And she said, that's right.
And that's when I started digging.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
So let me tell you why I'm excited about getting this book out now.
Republicans control the presidency, the House and the Senate.
They got elected based on identity politics.
As a result, they're going to double and triple down and do bad things.
So I believe white Americans of goodwill, we're seeing it in Minnesota, see we do not live in a post-racial society, right?
Learning the history of what happened to black Americans after slavery ended is what we need to be talking about now.
Yes, I have a plan for that, right?
So we were able to move people just like myself who started as skeptics or even opponents of reparations to support when two things happened.
When we showed them the four prior examples where the federal government paid reparations...
One, white enslavers got money from the federal government for freed slaves in the District of Columbia.
Again, the Italy reparations case.
We paid compensation to tribal nations for land theft and economic exploitation.
And finally, we paid compensation to Americans of Japanese descent who were mass incarcerated during World War II.
So when people hear that, things that happen to Black Americans, but Black Americans never receive payment for, they go, wait a minute, that's not fair.
And then when they learn the history of race in America, that the 13th Amendment didn't fix
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