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GOP Senator Calls Reparations for Slavery ‘Bullshit!’
Says all black people are criminals
What is it you want me to reconcile myself to? You always told me it takes time. It has taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time, my nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?
–James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket, 1985
I will flatly say that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have been white, if I may so put it, too long.
–James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955
No other single issue brings out the deep-seated anti-black racism of James Baldwin’s great “bulk of the white population” better and more viscerally than the utterly unthinkable idea, notion, possibility or damnable concept of paying black people for our at least five centuries-long struggle, race-based exploitation, and ongoing, indeed never-ending, racial discrimination and suffering, at the hands of so-called “white” people — in all and every aspect and facet of human life.
Reparations are in the “news” today because Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told a crowd of Trump worshipers in…
