![]() ![]() “Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin. “An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color,” author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in “The Case for Reparations,” a landmark 2014 article for the Atlantic. ![]() ![]() They were and still are discriminated against in the workplace and prevented from earning fair and equal pay. Blacks have been beaten and killed because of their race, denied the right to vote and prohibited from living in certain neighborhoods. Prosperous Black towns were looted and burned. After the Civil War, many purchased land, only to see it stolen. They have been denied the right to their own bodies separated from their siblings, spouses and children and forced to work for free. They were the ultimate deadbeat dads.īlack people have been systematically robbed. These White men never paid child support for the Black children they fathered. Except on rare occasions, children conceived through the rape of enslaved women didn’t benefit from the wealth of their White fathers. The centuries of injustice, dear reader, should be reason enough to make a case for reparations. The institution that empowered that White woman to segregate Leah’s breasts also seeded discriminatory policies that blocked Blacks from building wealth. ![]()
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