Summary

As Chapter 4 continues, Blow writes, “I am not advocating for Black nationalism, but a Black regionalism—not to be apart from America, but stronger within it, through consolidation and concentration” (127). Blow also notes that, statistically, many Black Americans have already begun to migrate from the North to the South in recent years. Blow writes that it is necessary to increase the rate of this migration. He then writes about some of the places in the South that already offer advantages to Black Americans due to the large Black populations there. Blow then details some of the ways in which increased statewide and nationwide Black political power could be used to enact social progress. A primary issue Blow addresses is that of reparations, which is the morally necessary progress of investing in Black communities that are still affected by the destructive legacy of slavery and...