There's been a good bit of press surrounding Ta Nehisi Coate's calls for "reparations" for the descendants of slaves here in America, been going on for a while now. Every time I see this somewhere in my news feed, I have the same reaction:
Get. In. Line.
If we want to go down that road (and we should), we are going to have to deal with the out-and-out genocide that was perpetrated against those folks who had been living here for centuries first. Then we can get to the slavery issue.
You don't get to jump to the head of the line just because.....
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