Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic, 21 May 2014. “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.”
May 21, 2014
The Case for Reparations
May 21, 2014 Filed Under: Banking, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Labor, Law, Poverty, Racism Tagged With: clyde ross, congressman john conyers' bill (hr 40--the commission to study reparation proposals for african americans act), contract buyers league, contract mortgages, federal housing administration, foreclosure crisis, jim crow, lynching, north lawndale illinois, racist housing policy, redlining neighborhoods, separate but equal, slavery, tulsa oklahoma 1921 race riot, white supremacy