Douglas Andrews
Iâm in favor of reparations, and itâs all whiteyâs fault that we donât have âem yet.
Barack Obama might not have expressed himself quite so candidly. After all, heâs a man of great depth and nuance â or, as Joe Biden would say, âarticulate and bright and clean.â But this is the essence of his thoughts on the matter. He told as much yesterday.
As Peter Heck writes, âOn the Renegadesâ podcast he co-hosts with Bruce Springsteen, Obama shared his views on race relations and the part reparations might play in improving them. The former president expressed that while office he considered pursuing reparation payments to black citizens as compensation for the [generational] wealth lost as a consequence of slavery, but ultimately decided it would be a fruitless venture. Obama said that while he has always thought reparations would be âjustified,â he knew that âthe politics of white resistance and resentm
Iâm in favor of reparations, and itâs all whiteyâs fault that we donât have âem yet.
Barack Obama might not have expressed himself quite so candidly. After all, heâs a man of great depth and nuance â or, as Joe Biden would say, âarticulate and bright and clean.â But this is the essence of his thoughts on the matter. He told us as much yesterday.
As Peter Heck writes, âOn the Renegadesâ podcast he co-hosts with Bruce Springsteen, Obama shared his views on race relations and the part reparations might play in improving them. The former president expressed that while [in] office he considered pursuing reparation payments to black citizens as compensation for the [generational] wealth lost as a consequence of slavery, but ultimately decided it would be a fruitless venture. Obama said that while he has always thought reparations would be âjustified,â he knew that âthe politics of white resistance and resentmentâ
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