Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits case for reparations, five years after landmark essay
NBC NewsWire/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images/ was published in June 2014, the idea of financial recompense for the descendants of slaves was thrust to the forefront of US public discourse. Coates’s 15,000-word article in the Atlantic contended that nearly every institution tied to American history, public and private alike, plundered resources and wealth from African Americans. This “piracy” overwhelmingly enriched white Americans while bolstering racist institutions, enabling oppression to continue from the civil war’s conclusion until ...
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