Earn Your Leisure

In this eye-opening episode of EYL, hosts Rashad Bilal, Ian Dunlap, and Troy Millings sit down with guest Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss reparations and prison reform. Kennedy shares his comprehensive approach to economic development in black communities and highlights the importance of equity and homeownership as essential components of economic empowerment.Kennedy acknowledges the moral argument for reparations but argues that race-based reparations would be unconstitutional based on a recent Supreme Court decision in the Harvard case. Instead, he advocates for a more inclusive approach to economic development in black neighborhoods, drawing upon his 35-year experience on the board of directors of Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. He emphasizes the need to address the systematic stripping of equity, particularly in terms of homeownership, from black communities, noting that by 2030, there may be essentially zero black equity left in the United States.The guest also addresses the underlying issue