An Annapolis Friend shared the following with our Discuss List:
Friends – Atlantic Magazine recently reprinted its 2014 article “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nahisi Coates. When first printed, it greatly increased calls for reparations for the descendants of slavery and Jim Crow. It’s a pretty powerful piece, well worth reading if you want to understand this complex issue. I strongly recommend it. ~ Pat S.
From: The Atlantic, Originally published June 2014
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nahisi Coates
“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.”
READ MORE at this link which allows a free trial subscription (and access to dozens of the most important pieces on race and racism from 163 years of The Atlantic’s archives); or find this essay within Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2017 collection of essays “We Were Eight Years in Power: an American Tragedy” both are available online for purchase and for those among us who are fortunate, you may find this in our/your local library. Anne Arundel County Public Library has both paper and digital copies available for county residents to borrow.