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Evidently some of us want to talk about the history of American urban development policy and its complicated and shameful history as a means of controlling, limiting, and draining money from black people. Even, and persistently, in a thread that was intended to be about something else.
As it happens, the magisterial essay of the decade on precisely this subject was published earlier this year: The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. So let’s talk about it. Conscious, as you will be once you’ve read the essay, that this isn’t a subject on which there are any simple answers, or on which the simple answers are anything like enough. And of course you will read the essay, because hard truths are hard but they’re also true, and you do in fact care about what’s true.
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