In 2016 a Seattle-based artist created Reparations.me, a website for people of color to request and receive specific reparations on a small, individual scale from white people.
“I think people are asking themselves: How can I be just a little bit better?” site creator Natasha Marin told The Washington Post. “It’s encouraging to see people remember that it feels good to be helpful.”
While there hasn’t been activity on the site since 2017, Reparations.me was launched to let people of color request money for specific services or items, and for White people to fund those requests, as well offer their own services or items. “Reparations.me enacts reparations on a small, individualized scale as the country reckons with the concept of structural reparations. The Movement for Black Lives’ new policy platform includes reparations to African Americans for slavery and historical oppression as one of its core demands,” Colorlines reported.
