Responding to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comment that reparations are not a good idea because no one responsible for slavery is alive today, Coates reeled off a list of racial injustices that were perpetrated in McConnell's lifetime.
His 2014 Atlantic cover story on reparations is not so much an argument for reparations as an argument against America.
Advocates for reparations claim that the victims of this plunder are no less figures of the past than are the perpetrators, which is why the debate swirling around reparations has less to do with our troubled history than assigning guilt in the present day.
Assigning guilt is of course a means of seizing and wielding power, which is the true object of reparations.
Reparations is like any other issue that animates the American left these days.
Where you stand on reparations is like where you stand on immigration.
Cashin, the law professor, tries to shoehorn reparations into nothing more than increased taxpayer spending on "Richly resourced schools and community centers, public transit, opportunity fellowships, housing choice vouchers, and mandatory inclusive housing elsewhere." Nothing more than balancing out public spending in the face of "Opportunity-hoarding among affluent whites."
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/call-reparations-isnt-justice-power/
His 2014 Atlantic cover story on reparations is not so much an argument for reparations as an argument against America.
Advocates for reparations claim that the victims of this plunder are no less figures of the past than are the perpetrators, which is why the debate swirling around reparations has less to do with our troubled history than assigning guilt in the present day.
Assigning guilt is of course a means of seizing and wielding power, which is the true object of reparations.
Reparations is like any other issue that animates the American left these days.
Where you stand on reparations is like where you stand on immigration.
Cashin, the law professor, tries to shoehorn reparations into nothing more than increased taxpayer spending on "Richly resourced schools and community centers, public transit, opportunity fellowships, housing choice vouchers, and mandatory inclusive housing elsewhere." Nothing more than balancing out public spending in the face of "Opportunity-hoarding among affluent whites."
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/call-reparations-isnt-justice-power/
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