“It is time for this country to pay its debt. It is time for reparations.”
If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans, writes @nhannahjones for @NYTmag. nyti.ms/3fR6tso
If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans, writes @nhannahjones for @NYTmag. nyti.ms/3fR6tso
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The prosperity of the United States is inextricably linked with the forced labor of the ancestors of 40 million black Americans, writes @nhannahjones 
So much of what makes black lives hard, what takes black lives earlier, what causes black Americans to be vulnerable to the type of policing that kills, is the lack of wealth that has been a defining feature of black life since the end of slavery, writes @nhannahjones
