Additional Rec. - July 23, 2020

Additional Rec. - "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“America begins in black plunder and white democracy, two features that are not contradictory but complementary.”

“Plunder had been the essential feature of slavery, of the society described by Calhoun. But practically a full century after the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, the plunder—quiet, systemic, submerged—continued even amidst the aims and achievements of New Deal liberals.”

“Adhering to middle-class norms has never shielded black people from plunder.”

“To ignore the fact that one of the oldest republics in the world was erected on a foundation of white supremacy, to pretend that the problems of a dual society are the same as the problems of unregulated capitalism, is to cover the sin of national plunder with the sin of national lying.”

“Perhaps no number can fully capture the multi-century plunder of black people in America. Perhaps the number is so large that it can’t be imagined, let alone calculated and dispensed. But I believe that wrestling publicly with these questions matters as much as—if not more than—the specific answers that might be produced. An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future. More important than any single check cut to any African American, the payment of reparations would represent America’s maturation out of the childhood myth of its innocence into a wisdom worthy of its founders.”

If you are white, read “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates in its entirety. Trace the plundering of Black people by white people since before the inception of this country. Contact members of Congress to support H.R. 40 and reparations.

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