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Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.
And why you can’t blame progressivism for the Democrats’ losses this election.
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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“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”
“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.
One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms.
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