{"id":170,"date":"2014-06-02T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lestweforgetmu.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:14:24","slug":"the-case-for-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/02\/the-case-for-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/newsroom\/img\/posts\/2014\/05\/brooks_small\/5c4783ea8.jpg\" alt=\"The Case For Reparations\" width=\"350\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article,\u00a0<a title=\"Case For Reparations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Case For Reparations<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 is a stark reminder and the most comprehensive writing that clearly shows how black achievement was stymied from the time we were brought to America and kept enslaved for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>It should be required reading for everyone. We commend\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bro. Ta-nehisi Coates<\/a>\u00a0for his tremendous insight, and for shining a light on a dark and tragic period of American history as we do every day of our lives. We must continue to learn the lessons of slavery as well as African American history \u201cLest We Forget\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peace, The Ragsdale\u2019s<\/p>\n<div class=\"sociable\">\n<div class=\"sociable_tagline\">Share the legacy&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. This article,\u00a0The Case For Reparations,\u00a0 is a stark reminder and the most comprehensive writing that clearly shows how black achievement was stymied from the time we were brought to America and kept enslaved for hundreds of years. It should be required reading for everyone. We commend\u00a0Bro. Ta-nehisi Coates\u00a0for his tremendous insight, and for shining a light on a dark and tragic period of American history as we do every day of our lives. We must continue to learn the lessons of slavery as well as African American history \u201cLest We Forget\u201d. Read the complete article here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/ Peace, The Ragsdale\u2019s Share the legacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-slavery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}