On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Maxim Linchits <[email protected]> wrote:
> And Coates expects a deeply racist, fragmented and economically stagnant > society to pay meaningful reparations to one politically marginalizes > group? What do people even mean by reparations? Cutting a one-time check a > la Friedman, Murray et. al. (which is still utopian, but ideologically > appealing in some quarters)? > You really should read Coates at more length. The point of the demand for reparations is precisely to have this public discussion, this historical accounting. A process like a "Truth and Reconcialiation Commission" for the US. If you give this matter even a little bit of thought - and the reason the demand for reparations is so important is precisely that no one has ever bothered to give this much thought at all - you will quickly be forced to conclude that no one-time payment will ever come close to being enough. So what could reparations consist of? Coates makes the case that housing discrimination and segregation has been especially important, so perhaps making a strong effort at combating that? The criminal justice system is another area that comes to mind. The overall point, especially as it concerns Sanders is: take racism seriously as a issue. It is not just a side-effect of inequality or class conflict something like that. -raghu.
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