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| 026267f | Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say - that American propserity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt. | wealth wealth-gap wealth-management white-guilt institutionalized-racism reparations wealth-creation whiteness black-history us-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 14d1743 | The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. | prejudice racism slavery hr-40 white-guilt institutionalized-racism reparations whiteness slavery-in-the-united-states | Ta-Nehisi Coates |