tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post3147419792433809973..comments2023-08-10T06:32:38.601-04:00Comments on By Their Strange Fruit <a name="top"> </a>: Reparations and the Church?BTSF:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02553697351488297764noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-40673614861935663382014-06-02T00:48:29.004-04:002014-06-02T00:48:29.004-04:00See also, Daniel José Camacho on Ta-Nehisi Coates ...See also, Daniel José Camacho on Ta-Nehisi Coates as the American Exorcist: http://ecclesiasticalgraffiti.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/american-exorcist-ta-nehisi-coates/BTSFbloghttp://bytheirstrangefruit.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-23663696172483944892014-06-02T00:47:55.547-04:002014-06-02T00:47:55.547-04:00More key quotes from Coates:
"Won’t reparat...More key quotes from Coates: <br /><br />"Won’t reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say—that American prosperity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt."<br /><br />"The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter."<br /><br />"Reparations—by which I mean the full acceptance of our collective biography and its consequences—is the price we must pay to see ourselves squarely. The recovering alcoholic may well have to live with his illness for the rest of his life. But at least he is not living a drunken lie."<br /><br /> "We were not there when Washington crossed the Delaware, but Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s rendering has meaning to us. We were not there when Woodrow Wilson took us into World War I, but we are still paying out the pensions. "BTSFbloghttp://bytheirstrangefruit.com/noreply@blogger.com