Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations

“I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates

From Bill Moyers

Video Description: This week Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.

“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.”

Ubuntu,

From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins, MSW, LLMSW

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