Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations

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To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset availa — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious bl — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations