HIST 2061 Chapter : Case Of Reparations
Document Summary
In the case for reparations the author, ta-nehisi coates, argues that a form of reparation meaning, full acceptance of [america"s] collective biography and its consequences, is needed for african-americans" history of slavery, discrimination, and suppression. That even after slavery and the reconstruction era, african-americans have been victims of wealth suppression and white supremacy, which has led to this race leading in the numbers of america"s population of living in poverty. Coates states [r]eparations would mean a revolution of the. American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratized with the facts of our history. In the beginning of the article, coates is interviewing a man named clyde ross who is sharing his own experience of wealth suppression around the 1950"s. Ross is a living victim of redlining in the neighborhood of north lawndale, a now considered ghetto area in chicago. Coates talks not only to ross but others involved in the league and redlining.
