Summary Of Ta-Nehisi Coates The Case For Reparations

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In "The Case for Reparations," Ta-Nehisi Coates focuses on the historical background of Black exploitation and White supremacy, rather than bluntly discussing reparations in order to build background on why reparations for Black Americans are so vital to condemning past wrongdoing, and moving forward. To convey his stance, Coates describes in part four how, “America begins in black plunder and white democracy, two features that are not contradictory but complementary,” (60). In establishing the history and pain of how the United States became the country it is today, Coates acknowledges the suffering of Black Americans. Describing the exploitation of early enslaved Africans and how that history has continued to devastate families even today,