Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Reparations and Racism

ta-nehisi coates small Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic cover story on reparations has sparked reactions from outrage to enthusiastic agreement, and he sat down yesterday with Anne-Marie Slaughter of the New America Foundation to discuss how we can address three centuries of systemic racism. He builds his case on the story of a 91-year-old black man who fled Depression-era Mississippi and moved to Chicago, only to discover that he couldn’t get the government-sponsored mortgage that he needed to buy a home.

The Federal Housing Administration, which regulated home loans from 1934 to 1968, wouldn’t grant loans to people who wanted to buy in black neighborhoods or on blocks with black residents.

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