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

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295. Well there you go.

Since there is no chance, let's just give the fuck up.

I mean LGBT marriage rights were a no go. We should have just given up on that. Oh wait, we didn't.

My father, a black man, was told he would never get tenure and certainly never be the chairman of the English department when he was hired at the college he worked for in the late 1960's. He should have just given up on that right? Oh wait, he didn't. In fact, within 20 years he had both, then became an academic dean, and retired professor emeritus well loved by the campus and his students.

I sure as hell want someone like my gay sister who fought for the right to marry her partner for almost 20 years. I sure as hell want someone like my black father who fought for equal job rights for his entire life. That is why I support Sanders and not miss status quo we should even try Clinton.

Why would I turn on Sanders? I know it is a hard fight, but he is at least willing to do so. I never turned on Obama. I knew he was a neoliberal New Dem from the start. I didn't vote for the 'hope and change' 1980's moderate Republican. And sure as shit, he didn't even try to get single payer. But damned, he sure made those insurance company's happy! You do know that mandated insurance is not mandated health care?