Taken from "In Conversation With Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case For Reparations"
Link above goes to a really incisive Buzzfeed conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his Atlantic mag cover story making a case for reparations. I haven’t read the story yet but this dialog and many other parts of the conversation make it a must read for me.
“One of the things I really wanted to get across in doing this was when black people get upset about racism, when black people shout about things, you have to understand the historical relationship of African-Americans to this country. It is not a good one. I know in our lifetimes we think it was a good one, but we carry our grandmothers’ stories, we carry our mothers’ stories, we carry our families’, our communities’ stories…”
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