Yes there’s no way to fully rectify the wrongs of the past. Dismissing the proposition in a way that defeats even considering it is where I have a problem. We can’t even reach the point of actually sorting out which victims of systematic socio-economic abuse might qualify for some kind of reparation or what a reparation would entail until we’re at the point of facing reality and wanting to right those wrongs enough to put together commissions/working groups to sort it out in an informed, practical, and realistic way (comments on articles on the internet do not count here). As someone who is not a member of a full-time fact finding commission I know I don’t know enough to be in a position to say much besides that it’s a moral failure for society to not want to work to right those massive injustices, and that we should take into account not just slavery but everything else Coates discussed.
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