Preparations, Not Reparations
If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.
Eric Silver, John Iceland
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If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.
A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.
Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.