Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice

Dr. Harold D. Weaver of the BlackQuaker Project asks Friends to look at societal problems through new lenses: confronting systemic violence with antiviolence; acknowledging institutional and systemic racism, rather than merely individual racism; considering a retrospective justice program that compensates for and helps remove the historical inequities related to the transatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, and their legacies—Jim Crowism, other forms of dehumanization and exploitation, po...