This article talks about events that many of us try to forget without fully recovering or healing from it. Ta-Nehisi Coats stirs and opens wounds of cruelty and the extreme of racism: slavery. The outrages of white oppression on the average African so many years ago are difficult to quantify, since the effects are still significant and widespread. Economically, no sum of compensation can cure these crimes. The case for reparation on our people needs to be discussed so that no other group suffers such dehumanization and prolonged suffering. The article highlights Clyde Ross Odyssey from Clarksdale, Mississippi to North Lawndale, Chicago and tracks down the abuse and corruption of the economic manipulation of real estate. Segregation and poverty
