Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
Signs of overt racism still are all around us, be it a New Hampshire
police commissioner’s use of an ethnic slur to describe President Obama
or an NBA team owner’s disturbing remarks about black athletes and fans.
By now, we all know the drill, the media calls these people out for
their ugly words and we play our parts, shaking our heads in sad
disbelief — then return to our daily lives.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic
magazine, thinks it’s time for a bold step to change the way we talk
and think about race in America. This week, Bill speaks to Coates about
his June cover story for the magazine, provocatively titled “The Case
for Reparations.”
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