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

[tishaLA]

418. I sure hope Mr Coates never quoted Nietzsche

because, after all, Hitler and all that.

I can't quite keep track of this position, though, because it's shifted from reparations are bad because itfavors one group; that then became it's OK for legislation to favor one group over another, but not in the case of reparations because, you know, racial animus (leaving aside for a moment that Christians had the same animus about marriage equality, for example); now it's that he quoted someone bad.

You don't have to like Mr Coates' argument, and that's fine, of course. I do think the discussion about reparations merits real discussion even if we don't have a single presidential candidate running who is willing to support them as a means to mitigate policies that are still in place that undermine the possibility of black economic success.