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Errin Haines Whack: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece reveals the conversation that Americans need to start about our history of racial oppression
OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus‘s insight:
And while Coates mentions the role of the government in reparations – focusing attention on the languishing legislation proposed by Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, for example – he recognizes, as others who attempted to affect change throughout the history of this country have, that the moral will of all Americans must also be part of the solution.
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