Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked if he was in favor of “reparations for slavery”.
He gave one answer that I’ll divide into two parts.
Part one, “No, I don’t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.”
This part disappointed Ta-Nehisi Coates author of The Atlantic article titled: 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.
I’ll divide Coates’s subtitle into two parts.
1). Slavery
2). Three counts of discriminatory policy after emancipation
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