Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ta-Nehisi Coates May 21, 2014
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The Case for Reparations
ReplyDeleteTwo hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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By
Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 21, 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/