On Monday night, the Atlantic’s national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a lighthearted, CliffsNotes version of his 15,000-word cover story, “The Case For Reparations,” on “The Colbert Report.” Coates’ piece argues that social, economic and political injustices against black people have compounded over the years, and even after slavery and segregation have ended, the conditions leave many black communities on an uneven playing field today. To even out that playing field, Coates argues, they need reparations from the government. “This is well argued, and I can understand it, and I don’t want to understand it,” Colbert joked. Likening his piece to a doctor giving a patient a black diagnosis, Coates told Colbert, “We have to know what’s wrong in order for there to be any healing in the first place.” Then he made his case:
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:17:00 +0000
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