Ta-Nehisi Coates: Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

[artislife]

227. Until this thread, I hadn't seen a push for reparations

That doesn't mean there hasn't been, but it isn't an issue I have heard being asked.

Who knows, he may listen to this article, talk to people further, do some reassessing. I watched Trudeau's speech on the First Nationers and apologizing to them. His vow to reestablish a true relationship, was heartfelt and long over due. We need to do that for African Americans for sure. I do believe there is a lot of breaking down of long held systems all over the globe and that it has been in motion for a decade or so.

I also believe that the movement for fairness, Occupy, the bringing down the confederate flag is a movement from the ground up. I think this movement has been stirring and Sanders joined it rather than we joined him. He stepped up because this movement needed a candidate and the way to get all the streams to gather together into one, was through raging against Wall Street and the bankers.

This is how it feels to me.