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femmedem

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10. Ta-Nehisi Coates has written quite a bit for them, including his "The Case for Reparations."

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 05:50 PM

Sep 2020

In addition to "The Case for Reparations"--which explained the history of racial covenants and redlining to a lot of white people like me who were blithely ignorant--The Atlantic has published these writings of his: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/

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Ta-Nehisi Coates has written quite a bit for them, including his "The Case for Reparations." femmedem Sep 2020 #10

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