The Case for Reparations
I do believe that America must answer to its moral debt to African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and other groups of color that have suffered due to institutional racism. I think Ta-Nehisi Coates is not demanding that a certain sum of tax dollars is giving to the African American people, instead he argues that the idea of reparations it’s what’s important. It seems as if Americans are unaware of the history and the role that white supremacy and oppression has played. He argues that we need to begin by asking the question, what the nation might owe it’s black population after everything that’s been done to them. The statement “Imagine yourself as young a young black child watching your elders play by all the
I do believe that America must answer to its moral debt to African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and other groups of color that have suffered due to institutional racism. I think Ta-Nehisi Coates is not demanding that a certain sum of tax dollars is giving to the African American people, instead he argues that the idea of reparations it’s what’s important. It seems as if Americans are unaware of the history and the role that white supremacy and oppression has played. He argues that we need to begin by asking the question, what the nation might owe it’s black population after everything that’s been done to them. The statement “Imagine yourself as young a young black child watching your elders play by all the