Reparations Hearing | The Anointed Opening Statement of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on June 19, 2019 by SouthernGirl2

God Is In This

Ta-Nehisi Coates words were like King David’s slingshot against Goliath…

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying a day earlier that reparations were not “a good idea” because no one who is currently living is responsible. Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 20, 2019 at 3:48 pm

🎵🎤Who’s that man I see
underneath the hanging tree
he looks just like me
so tell me am I really free
could have been my mother
crying for my brother
and everybody, everybody, everybody
praying for peace
but who’s gonna protect us from the police🎵🎤

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rikyrah says:

June 20, 2019 at 3:37 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates Clapped Back at Mitch McConnell for Saying ‘No One Alive’ Is Liable for Reparations. So We Came Up With a List

Michael Harriot
Today 8:00am

……………………………

By no means should this list be considered all-inclusive. However, it is an indication of how many people blissfully walk around thinking that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and racial discrimination is dead.

Anyone who lives in a white neighborhood: A home in a majority-white neighborhood, on average, is worth $48,000 more than the exact same home located in a black neighborhood, even if the neighborhoods have similar crime rates, characteristics and amenities, according to a report by the Brookings Institute. The Root’s “Unpack That” explainer dissected how the racist practice of redlining created this disparity, which affects home prices to this very day. When one considers that the value of a primary residence is still the biggest fraction of most American families’ wealth, then it is no wonder that the devaluation of black-owned homes is calculated at $156 billion, according to Brookings. That is a measurable wealth disparity that can and should be made whole.

Anyone who graduated from a majority-white school: If you spend stolen money, should you have to pay it back if you didn’t know it was stolen? Well, according to Edbuild, children who attend schools in predominately white school districts receive $2,226 more funding per student that districts who serve mostly non-white students. That’s another $23 billion dollars stolen from black students whose parents pay the same state and federal taxes as white students. We’ll take that in check, money orders or Tubman twenties, please.

Anyone who was accepted to a segregated college: Taxpayer-funded colleges like Alabama and Ole Miss (which reclaimed its title of most racist name for a University after Trump University folded) were still integrating in the 1960s, so a lot of these graduates are still alive. Not only did students at these whites-only institutions not have to compete with black students for admission, but they enjoyed facilities, educators and resources that were paid for by black taxpayers who could not even access them.

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 20, 2019 at 1:42 pm

Republicans: "We can't talk about reparations for slavery. That happened 150 years ago. No one alive remembers it."

Also Republicans: "We must protect and defend our confederate statues so that future generations don't forget the sacrifices of those who came before them."

— Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) June 20, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 20, 2019 at 12:12 pm

KJ (@KendraJames_) Tweeted:
Danny Glover is 72 and his Black grandparents were sharecroppers and tennant farmers. I’m 31 and my Black grandmother grew up a sharecropper.

Even if you throw out redlining, the prison industrial complext, etc we’re not even close to being removed from the effects of slavery. https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/1141373854691893248?s=17

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rikyrah says:

June 20, 2019 at 12:01 pm

The deficit was ‘generational.’

Kay says:
June 20, 2019 at 12:36 pm

I think there’s a real difference because the deficit to black people was generational, and so they were unable to accrue assets over years and years. The interest on the debt compounded in a way it didn’t for white people. To me it was the best part of Coates reparations article because no one talks about it in stark economic terms like that, and he did. If you were denied property in a “good” neighborhood based on race that asset hit you took rippled. It harmed the generation after you. That isn’t a straight line loss. It multiplies. He used Chicago so I will too. There was a migration from the south of poor whites too. They went to Chicago and Detroit and Toledo. They could buy property in middle class neighborhoods, and they benefited from that in each successive generation. They just had to succeed once, not over and over in each successive generation.

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 20, 2019 at 9:50 am

Ta-Nehisi Coates was ready! The Spirit of the Lord was with him.

He. Is. So. Good. https://t.co/OJGwlUcJtw

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) June 20, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 20, 2019 at 9:49 am

This is my grandmother. Born in Goodwill, Texas 106 years ago. She is very much alive. Her grandfather was born enslaved and was freed on #Juneteenth. She can recall family accounts of slavery. This is recent history. American history. #Reparations pic.twitter.com/9fRnbafzQZ

— Sonya Childress (@SonyaChildress) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 20, 2019 at 9:22 am

Read my column, “Reparations: Reasonable and Right,” and let me know what you think. https://t.co/OrRu2X828q

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) June 20, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 20, 2019 at 6:59 am

We shouldn’t even be putting these two men in the same category and this set up legitimizes the writing of someone who has not done the scholarship. https://t.co/4c35zWHaIs

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 20, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 10:33 pm

Watch the two sistas behind Coates when he finishes his opening statement. Check the smiles. Y’all know that’s how we do. It means you DID the damn thing. Thank you and goodnight!

Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations: “A nation is both its credits and its debts. If Thomas Jefferson matters, so does (his slave) Sally Hemings. If D-Day matters, so does Black Wall Street” #Juneteenth pic.twitter.com/Pw8WBCu7Xq

— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 10:17 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates: We grant that @senatemajldr was not alive for Appomattox, but he was alive for the electrocution of George Stinney. He was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodward."

Racism and the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney

Isaac Woodard- eyes gouged out pic.twitter.com/fdqfn11EMK

— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) June 20, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 10:02 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates touched the soul. He was ready! God was with him!

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 9:54 pm

"It is impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery."

On this #Juneteeth, Ta-Nehisi Coates testified at the #reparationshearing to discuss the case for reparations. pic.twitter.com/b4WZlh0nH0

— The Root (@TheRoot) June 19, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 9:52 pm

"Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could've extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color," writer Ta-Nehisi Coates told Congress. "But America had other principles in mind" pic.twitter.com/a1RYYhbSnq

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 19, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 9:49 pm

Jesus Christ, Ta-Nehisi Coates burned @senatemajldr to the ground.
""We grant that Mr. McConnell was not alive for Appomattox, but he was alive for the electrocution of George Stinney. He was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodward." https://t.co/9EwGt5DkKe

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 9:49 pm

Let the Church say AMEN……

Ta-Nehisi Coates dismantles Mitch McConnell’s excuse for opposing reparations on live TVhttps://t.co/tpiZGun4mq

— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) June 20, 2019

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- Ametia says:
  
  June 20, 2019 at 2:17 pm
  
  Ta-Nehisi burned the shit out of McTrutle’s hard, foul, ugly, racist SHELL
  
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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 9:42 pm

Sen. Cory Booker, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover to testify at House panel hearing on slavery reparations https://t.co/HpFycV1skw pic.twitter.com/Zg85rIHBRV

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 8:27 pm

"Half the country fought to keep slavery and if they had won, we'd still have it presumably… this is kind of a self delusion or something or being intentionally obtuse."
NYTimes columnist Charles Blow denounces GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's reparation remarks. pic.twitter.com/780pVY1Qh6

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 20, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 6:46 pm

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee at the reparations hearing: "I'm a product of my history. I am clearly a child that has walked this path—No, I did not pick cotton, but I will say that those who picked cotton created the very basic wealth of this nation. For cotton was king."
Via The Hill pic.twitter.com/r30Uplbnsg

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 4:18 pm

Mitch McConnell’s dismissal of reparations was so offensive and insulting for the horror enslaved people suffered. How damn dare you!

One black president does not compensate for 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow segregation, 55 years of oppression, and the racist white president who followed. #reparations pic.twitter.com/if6JbxL9Qf

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 19, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 4:15 pm

Anyone flogging the dead horse of everyone-who-owned-slaves-is-dead should take a look at Rothstein’s Color of Law which traces the way the federal government mandated and created housing segregation.

— jelani cobb (@jelani9) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 4:12 pm

"When zip code determines what kind of school you go to.

When zip code determines what kind of food you can eat.

These are the vestiges of enslavement that people don't want to deal with." – Dr. Julianne Malveaux #Reparations pic.twitter.com/QgkieX5aXN

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 4:06 pm

Direct Holy rebuke of Mitch McConnell….

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "We grant that Mr. McConnell was not alive for Appomattox but he was alive for the electrocution of George Stinney. He was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodward. He was alive to witness kleptocracy in his native Alabama." https://t.co/pHgbVMgiXA pic.twitter.com/APvnzKq1W2

— The Hill (@thehill) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:57 pm

I keep coming back to this single sentence of Ta-Nehisi Coates' testimony on H.R. 40 today, but the whole thing is worth your time. https://t.co/qZpxz0iZuH pic.twitter.com/kf3azs40GC

— Olivia Paschal (@oliviacpaschal) June 19, 2019

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- rikyrah says:
  
  June 19, 2019 at 6:48 pm
  
  The inheritance of slavery👏👏
  
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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:56 pm

Ta-Nehisi’s statement was both a thorough rebuke of McConnell’s lazy dismissal and a proper definition of the full debate at hand. “The matter of reparations is one of making amends and direct redress,” he said, “but it is also a question of citizenship.” https://t.co/1onjKlgAil

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:55 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates on what reparations might look like: "I don't believe we should rule out cutting checks."

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:54 pm

A House subcommittee is taking up the question of studying reparations for slavery for the first time on Capitol Hill. Actor and activist Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates are among the witnesses expected to testify. https://t.co/sVzSFuFEiq

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:51 pm

"Why should the federal government bear responsibility for economic and social damages to the descendants of the enslaved?"

"I think the most obvious reason is because the federal government is complicit in it," Ta-Nehisi Coates says. https://t.co/mRdEFuytTO pic.twitter.com/OfzTRiCVim

— ABC News (@ABC) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:46 pm

Today we celebrate #Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the emancipation from slavery in the United States.

And on this day, Congress held a hearing on reparations. A massive crowd showed up for it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ opening statement is a stirring must-watch. ⬇️ https://t.co/hHfu2ciUXc

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 19, 2019

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SouthernGirl2 says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:46 pm

Ta-Nehisi Coates: This is about citizenship. Tells us we are heirs to the nation’s “credits and its debits. If Thomas Jefferson matters, so does Sally Hemings.” #HR40 #ReparationsHearing pic.twitter.com/7YLPL8JJHc

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 19, 2019

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rikyrah says:

June 19, 2019 at 3:39 pm

He nailed it. He really did nail The Turtle. Broke it down.

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- SouthernGirl2 says:
  
  June 19, 2019 at 3:44 pm
  
  THE ANOINTING….
  
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