Tag: reparations

United Nations General Assembly Captures the Performance of Narcissism on the Global Stage

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On March 26, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution promoted by Ghana and the African Union, designating the European Transatlantic Slave Trade and the chattel enslavement of Africans and African Americans as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Opponents, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, took semantic issue with […]

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Ta- Nehisi Coates responds to Mitch McConnell on reparations

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“It’s not a good idea.”  Asked where he stood on reparations in response to an upcoming hearing, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, said, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”  When asked by a reporter about […]

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Don’t Apologize To Me

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Not captured, not mastered Enslaved only to what I choose Never stood on an auction block This freedom I did not lose   Never lived on a plantation Worked from can’t see to can’t see Lift your countenance when I approach And don’t feel sorry for me   Don’t judge me based on history  And […]

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