Ta Nahisi Coates believes there are "moral debts" to be paid to blacks. Because of slavery, racism, discrimination and the disenfranchisement of an entire group of people - America will never be able mend their mistakes and he makes a strong case for Reparations for blacks...
Reparations: the idea that some form of compensatory payment should be made to the descendants of Africans (and African-Americans) who had been enslaved.
Read this article and comment below. Make connections to your life, what we've studied or anything in general from today (January 27, 2016) where there are arguments for and against Reparations: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/tanehisi-coates-reparations/427041/
I encourage you to research Coates and some of his views... (He's currently got a NY Times best seller in a book called Between the World and Me.)
For further reading...
This is most of his "Case" for reparations:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Reparations: the idea that some form of compensatory payment should be made to the descendants of Africans (and African-Americans) who had been enslaved.
Read this article and comment below. Make connections to your life, what we've studied or anything in general from today (January 27, 2016) where there are arguments for and against Reparations: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/tanehisi-coates-reparations/427041/
I encourage you to research Coates and some of his views... (He's currently got a NY Times best seller in a book called Between the World and Me.)
For further reading...
This is most of his "Case" for reparations:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/