ONE, it would stop making the racial history of America some amorphous, misty thing. It becomes real as fuck when you start putting names and positions to those random faces. Seeing that that person holding the rope that is hanging a charred black body is the MAYOR of a town/city..? Yeah, that's real, and as image/facial recognition tech gets better, that shit is gonna be doable from an average laptop.

TWO, with companies, the benefit is a str8 line to making the case for reparations much, much more concrete. I mean, American banking is deeeeeeeeeeep in slavery money.

THREE, beyond the enslavement of Africans, the mob violence and legalized theft that took place during Jim Crow should be catalogued as much as possible. Aaaaaaaalllllll them black folk the headed north after the red hot summer left a lot of land/property behind.

Point is, if you put the experience of black america in the larger narrative of oppressed minorities globally in the last two centuries, the fact that we HAVE NOT attempted any of this is a minor miracle