By Daniel Payne — 2021
George Floyd’s death powered a sustained and historically significant wave of activism among white Americans that will have wide-ranging political and policy implications, experts say.
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CLEAR ALL
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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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.
“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.
And why you can’t blame progressivism for the Democrats’ losses this election.
The author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and more.
The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.