MUST READ: 'The Case for Reparations' - The Atlantic

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6. I commented on the other thread

I've read the article twice and have it saved to refer to and pass on. I have had arguments for years that our government and society has yet to right the wrongs committed by us and that the problems in the african american community today are directly traced to the systemic racism that grew from our founding and still festers. We the people and the government we elect did this. In my lifetime the schools where I live were closed because of racism, I still meet people today who cannot read or write because they were poor when the schools closed and didn't have wealthy parents to send them to a private school. They worked on the farms. Those farms paid cash and never paid in social security. I sometimes volunteer at the local church when they do health fairs and meet people who never got a paycheck for the work they did, in my lifetime. In my lifetime it was illegal for inter racial marriage in this state. Programs like the great society, affirmative action etc attempted to correct what our government did racism didn't fade away. The election of a black president did not end racism.