By Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum — 2012
As a society we are sacrificing a generation of our young people.
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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.