In his interview with Bill, Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic, writes that it’s time for America to have a national conversation about the legacy of slavery and racism. In “The Case for Reparations,” his cover article for the magazine’s June issue,
Coates says we need to reconcile the moral debt and economic damage
inflicted upon generations of black Americans — from the advent of
slavery all the way to the institutional racism that continues to this
day.
“I believe that wrestling publicly with these questions
matters as much as — if not more than — the specific answers that might
be produced. An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable
citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring
not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the
certain sins of the future,” Coates writes.
So let’s talk about it.
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