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In reply to the discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bernie Sanders, and Reparations [View all]Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)because there is no major candidate who does. Perhaps because, on the issue of race, the choice during the primary is between two folks who are handing out Band-Aids to smallpox patients and the decision is only between whose Band-Aids cover more of the festering sores.
I have zero problem with Coates going after Bernie. From those with great vision, great things are expected. I think it's a sad statement about what a waste of time it would be to go after Hillary that he didn't do the same to her. (Seriously, when Jay Nixon and Claire McCaskill are your spokespersons, there really is zero reason to even speak to you).
I, for one, am not going to wait until I hear a candidate: (1) call Atlantic Slave Trade and Southern Slavery the greatest human rights violations in the history of the world; (2) admit that it destroyed the cultural underpinnings of an entire race in the Americas (which systemic racism has intentionally prevented from re-establishing); (3) admit that the majority culture would have exactly nothing save for slavery; and, (4) offer up the $60 TRILLION the majority culture OWES people of color (every one of which is a FACT) before I support a candidate.
You may do what you wish.