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

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1) As is being discussed yes it is. If it is not, then it is not reparations but what MLK proposed.

2) Reparations to him was a Bill of Rights for the disadvantaged AND yes, it included whites as well.

3) You are switching them again because the only time we did reparations was with the Japanese after WWII, and it was definitely a one time payout. The Germans did the same with the Jews.

4) There is no debate. It is either a one time payout type of reparation which will never happen. Or it is an end to economic apartheid which is what MLK proposed and Sanders is wanting to continue. Unlike every other candidate, he is speaking to both economic & social justice.

5) Then you are also ignorant of what Sanders means when he says 'revolution' and that his positions are NOT 'radical'. Coates has constructed a strawman of what he believes Sanders is about and then attempts to use that parody to attack him on a topic that he seems rather confused on himself. If reparations are a one off payment then it is not an ending of economic apartheid. If it is an ending of economic apartheid, why attack Sanders when that is what he is offering?

Coates and you have failed to make a rational argument or to defend reparations in general. Clarify and decide on your terms, clear the misconceptions about Sanders that you have gleaned, and then maybe start over without a two bit attack.