SPOTLIGHT TALK: Planning for a Diverse and Equitable Future: Reparations and the
Sat Oct 8, 1:00 PM - Sat Oct 8, 2:00 PM

Spotlight Talk
Planning for a Diverse and Equitable Future: Reparations and the Estate Tax
Saturday, October 8th 1:00 pm – 2 pm
Sarasota High School Alumni Auditorium
FREE for Members; $20 Not-Yet Members

Join Raymond C Odom, Director of Wealth Transfer Services and Senior Vice President of The Northern Trust Company in Chicago Illinois for a special presentation that links the history and purpose of the estate tax to the current racial wealth gap. This program will review the root causes of the racial wealth gap, including the initial success and ultimate failure of General Sherman's Special Field Order #15 promising formerly enslaved Africans 40 tillable acres, as well as subsequent government-backed discriminatory housing policies. Past reparation efforts in the United States and other parts of the world give insight as to how a successful Black reparations program could be implemented. Learn how estate taxes and other wealth taxes are the ideal funding source for reparations, and how new charitable incentives in the tax law could create a public-private partnership to redress the “forgotten 40 acres.” This talk will be moderated by Dr. Uzi Baram, director of the New College of Florida Public Archeology Lab.
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition of The structure the labor the foundation the escape the pause by Xaviera Simmons.