Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2022

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire Société ». Partie 1 (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots environ) : Say what the documents reveal about the question of slavery reparations in the US, the issues it raises, and how it is − or could be − dealt with. Partie 2 (4 pts) Transposition en français. Rendez compte des principales idées exprimées dans le document B, en français et de manière structurée. (110 – 130 mots) 22-LLCERANMCME3 Page : 2/10 Document A What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like After decades of work from activists pushing the issue, presidential candidates, Congress members, local governments and private institutions have debated whether and how the federal government should issue reparations for Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. […] 5 Proposals for reparations programs have been raised by reparations advocacy groups in recent decades. The National African American Reparations Commission, for example, has a 10-point reparations plan that includes calls for a national apology for slavery and subsequent discrimination; a repatriation program that would allow interested people to receive assistance when exercising their “right to return” to an 10 African nation of their choice; affordable housing and education programs; and the preservation of Black monuments and sacred sites, with the proposals benefiting any person of African descent living in the US. Other proposals, like one proposed by Andre Perry and Rashawn Ray for the Brookings Institution1, would also specifically provide restitution to descendants with at 15 least one ancestor enslaved in the U.S., coupling direct financial payment with plans for free college tuition, student loan forgiveness, grants for down payments2 and housing revitalization and grants for Black-owned businesses. “Making the American Dream an equitable reality demands the same U.S. government that denied wealth to Blacks restore that deferred wealth through reparations to their 20 descendants,” they wrote last year. The variety of proposals show that even among supporters of reparations, there is some disagreement about what a full program should look like and what exactly should be described as “true reparations.” “I think we would be doing ourselves a huge disservice if we were just talking about 25 financial compensation alone,” said Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher with Human Rights Watch. While Heath said she did support