Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2009
Harry has an interesting post on the astounding black-white wealth gap, and ends by pointing to reparations as a possible solution. He gives as succinct and compelling a summary of the reparations movement as I’ve read: That movement says the Black-white wealth gap was created immorally, over centuries, on purpose, with wide complicity of many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2009
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a wonderfully addictive blog filled with passive aggressive notes found in public spaces. None, however, comes close to this letter sent in 1865 by a freed slave to his former master, who had graciously invited the man and his family back from the North to serve him in freedom. [...]
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