Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror

On the heels of Wednesday’s historic hearing on reparations, we speak with renowned writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on the lasting legacy of American slavery, how the national dialogue about reparations has progressed in the past five years and his testimony in favor of H.R. 40, which took direct aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Coates says, “It is absolutely impossible to imagine America without enslavement.”

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[lutherp.smithjr.]

Black Labor White Wealth by Dr. Claud Anderson

[soulblack]

#ADOS keep the pressure on. We're here for the long haul!!

[tclay]

👀👀Stop the rhetoric and pay the Debt To #ADOS ...Restitution, Restorative Justice, Reparations for #ADOS

[cantoleocorp.]

Dr. Claude Anderson has done the most extensive analysis of the subject.

[johnnysmith]

why do we need to protest congress for a study of reparations?...why leave that up to them?...why not come together and privately fund a study on our own, figure out what we need/want then take it to congress or the supreme court or better yet the International court and demand it..
.why do we continue to let these people and this country give us what they want to give us instead of demanding what we know is rightfully ours

[kareemsmith]

Shout out to Dr. Claude Anderson and his profound work "Powernomics"

[Sweet-as-banana]

Shout out to Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown for creating the ADOS movement which got this bill a hearing! #ADOS

[samuelmahmud]

How come dr. Claud Anderson wasn't there to speak on behalf of reparations

[marcusflowers]

Brilliant brother.. His arguments cannot be debated!!! The James Baldwin of our time!!!

[staceytakenalive]

A moral person doesn’t want stolen goods, an immoral one doesn’t want to take responsibility to DO THE RIGHT THING.

[asswuppin]

Ta-Nehisi Coates - I could sit and enjoy a long discussion with this man.


His is a voice(and mind) worthy of an audience.


Excellent video.

[lovingmymelanin]

Ta- Nehisi Coates, thank you for your presence and your voice👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Coleman Hugh’s IS NOT ONE OF US🤷🏽‍♀️

[kself]

Thanks to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Democracy Now for this discussion. One point that can’t be emphasized enough is that slavery begat racism, and right now, as I’m writing this, racism impacts every major institution. We can’t name an institution that does not consistently, annually, produce racially disparate outcomes: Education. Finance. Employment. Criminal justice. Economics. Health care. Politics. Law. Entertainment. Mental health. And so on.

In fact, this is how we’ve been able to have “racism without racists, ” as Eduardo Bonilla-Silva wrote. So long as we have fundamentally “nice” people, who don’t make the connection between historical racism and modern systems (which came to be via policy, voting, pseudo science, unconscious bias, etc.), we’ll continue to create racist outcomes that we simply don’t see.

[tclay]

Way to go TaNahesi ♥️ it’s time to #CuttheCheck for #ADOS

[kareemsmith]

Forget, music and all that junk, ADOS have been cheated out of their inventions and intellectual property.

[floydwilson]

EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯
THEY OWE US REPARATIONS BECAUSE YOUR STILL BENEFITTING FROM OUR PAIN...PERIOD

[rebekavi]

She said for the international viewers that may not know about this history.... 👀 like wasn’t there international involvement?

[gloriaf]

Coats is a great spokesman for this topic. His ideas are on point.

[dustyhotep]

An economic problem needs an economic solution. Tangibles is the only answer. CUT THE CHECK!!

[TalkEssence]

I can not for the life of me understand how social scientist, Dr Joy Degruy, wasnt also at that hearing to present her amazing breakdown of the various effects of slavery that we see today. She should be in every major discussion regarding reparations.