What’s the Best Way to Give Reparations?

Democrats are finally grappling with the country’s ugly racial history

Dwyer Gunn
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5 min readApr 22, 2019

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In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates published a historic essay in The Atlantic making, as the headline of the piece suggests, the case for reparations. Coates was clear in his conviction that reparations have not been paid to African Americans because of a function of the country’s…

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Dwyer Gunn
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Journalist covering economics for @Medium. Words for @nytimes @Slate @NYMag. @Freakonomics alum. Email: dwyer.gunn@gmail.com