When Clyde Ross was still a child, Mississippi authorities claimed - TopicsExpress



          

When Clyde Ross was still a child, Mississippi authorities claimed his father owed $3,000 in back taxes. The elder Ross could not read. He did not have a lawyer. He did not know anyone at the local courthouse. He could not expect the police to be impartial. Effectively, the Ross family had no way to contest the claim and no protection under the law... An excerpt of Ta-Nehisi Coates piece, The Case for Reparations. The article originally appeared on The Atlantics website.
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 17:11:39 +0000

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