On Tuesday, Ta-Nehisi Coates took Bernie Sanders to task in a widely discussed essay at The Atlantic for declining to support reparations for black Americans.
“No, I don’t think so,” Sanders recently said, when asked point blank if he would support the cause. “First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.”
Coates, to say the least, is not satisfied by Sanders’ argument that reparations’ political odds are too long, calling it “a correct observation which could just as well apply to much of the Vermont senator’s own platform.”