...In the article “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates it is about how colored people have been oppressed and how they would let it happen to them because they were limited within their resources. Many black people didn’t have the education of a white person and they had limited resources such as school and transportation. Many students had to walk to school because they didn’t have a mode of transportation. White people were able to ride the bus however black people weren’t. Clyde Ross was a colored man and was denied the same education as a white person because he didn’t have a mode of transportation. His family were sharecroppers because they lost almost everything they had because they didn’t know how to read. They would get over...
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...“The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates is about a gentleman named Clyde Ross. It explains how his situation has always been unfavorable. He learned at a young age about how racist people could be and how the laws didn’t always work out fairly for everyone. Trying to escape this reality he moved on. While moving on did change the way some people treated him, he still faced some of the injustices that Blacks face such as unfair pricing for houses. In the second paragraph, how whites always have the upper hand is discussed. It doesn’t matter if blacks are making the same amount or even more than whites, none of it will matter, besides the skin color. There was also talk about reparations that have never and will never be paid because that’s just how I works and how things play out....
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