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Why Reparations Now?
Bennett Muraskin
August 7, 2014
Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic — But Our Blogger Respectfully Disagrees
by Bennett Muraskin

- It acknowledges the inhumanity of slavery in the US.
- It establishes a commission to study slavery, subsequent discrimination against freed slaves and its impact on African Americans today.
- The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on African Americans.
Bennett Muraskin, a contributing writer for Jewish Currents, is author of The Association of Jewish Libraries Guide to Yiddish Short Stories, Let Justice Well Up Like Water: Progressive Jews from Hillel to Helen Suzman,and Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore, among other books.