Many people are talking about the Ta-Nehisi Coates essay on slavery and reparations. Ezra Klein has a summary of the argument, which runs as follows: What Coates shows is that white America has, for hundreds of years, used deadly force, racist laws, biased courts and housing segregation to wrest the power of compound interest for […]
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How much have white Americans benefited from slavery and its legacy?