Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case For Reparations

[Admiral Yi]

Finished it.  Didn't do any better job in the second half addressing the issue of collective vs. individual responsibility.

[Scipio]

I didn't know before reading it that red lining was FHA policy.  I thought it was something banks did on their own.  Also had never heard of that "rent to own" fake mortgage.

Shit. People pull that shit all the time, all over the country.

[Siege]

Does he set a threshold or condition or time when affirmative action can be ended?

What are you talking about?
Progressive policies have no end.
There is not even one single entitlement program that have been ended after it begins.

[Siege]

I wonder, if my dad robs a bank and dies and I inherit the money, do I legally get to keep it?

Bad analogy.
Robbing banks have never been legal in any country.
Now, if your dad had a legal business, despite the negative moral outcomes, you get to keep the earnings unless congress change the law and says no.