User:EmanuelWilliams/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Reparations for slavery - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I think that it is very important or people to learn today how the oppression of African Americans is still present the same way it was 100 years ago, and how this oppression that African Americans faced hundreds of years ago is still something that affects African Americans today financially and institutionally. I also chose this article because I feel like it is relevant to what is going on today with America.

Evaluate the article
I think that this article should show how the wealth gap is something that is real, and is able to back up these claims with data. Although this article doesn't present why this wealth gap exists, and how it became, I feel like it does a good job showing that it is a real thing that many people don't really think about today. I think this article should viewpoints about how the racial wealth gap is relevant, and is extremely under represented and talked about, and I think this may because people don't want to accept this as a truth in this country, so they choose to ignore it, and kind of act like it doesn't exist. The viewpoints of this article are clearly stated, and they are able to show the history and allows for the reader to make the chose based on all of the evidence given in the article whether people who were enslaved in America deserve reparations. I think the article can show how society can provide ways in which we can shorten this racial wealth gap between African Americans and Whites. I think that this article can be improved by maybe bringing in examples of how this racial wealth gap was brought upon this country, and kind of have like a chapter in the table of contents where they can show the injustices African Americans faced for hundreds of years and relate it to the racial wealth gap that is present in todays society. They can do this by writing a portion including how while white people and slave owners were making large profits off of the backs of African Americans, while they received absolutely nothing, so while they were making money making their wealth, these slaves made nothing, which essentially widened this wealth gap, or even included how even after slavery African Americans in the majority of the states weren't able to purchase property, or even have access to the financial industry like whites were. I also think that the article does do a good job at displaying the images about reparations, and it's able to make sense to the writing of the article. I also like how the article not only includes the United States but other areas around the world that also used slavery. The information in the article is also very to date, and even includes topics about the recent political standings on reparations. Some viewpoints of the article are a little understated, it should include the topic of the racial wealth gap today. The citations that I did click on all worked as well which is a good sign of an article.