reparations -

captivating. powerful. landmark. consummate. a definitive prelude to a - yet to be arrived at - enlightened template?

The Case for Reparations

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.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 21, 2014