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In reply to the discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bernie Sanders, and Reparations [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)Bernie Sanders -- including apparently Coates -- do not.
There is no ideal to grand, too expensive, too huge to tackle -- unless its reparations. And then he turns into the consummate politician on this issue. The issue is "too divisive" and "will not pass" which, as Coates has observed very clearly, is the same thing that can be said about the vast majority of Sanders' platform. Why is this one issue alone the source of so much anxiety and angst??
John Conyers presented a bill every year he was in Congress to simply open a discussion on reparations and it was never even talked about publicly or in the media.
Apparently, the irony of this has completely escaped you. Re-read your OP, and then re-read that sentence. Let it sink in. Take as long as you need.