>>>>An important question. If you haven't yet read Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, it's worth it. Though short, it's eye-opening in its look into a life very different than my own.
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>>>The writings are emotionally powerful and certainly illustrate (correctly) on the sad history of racial discrimination. But the case for reparations is a different story and full of bad and misleading economic history. It's bad medicine.
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>>The book isn't about reparations. It's about being a black man in America.
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>I know.....that's why I referred to the author's "writings" in general, which have called for reparations.

AFAIK, he wrote a single article on the subject of reparations. I read it; it was fascinating and made some good points.

He's a professional writer. He's written many articles and more than one book. So saying that his "writings in general" have called for reparations is misleading.

Tamar