{"id":2559,"date":"2019-08-22T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:48:15","slug":"july-22-courageous-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/july-22-courageous-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for REPARATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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REPARATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, The Courageous Conversations topic for this month is
\nreparations.\u00a0 Here are a couple of articles to start our thinking:<\/p>\n

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The Case for Reparations<\/h1>\n

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.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/06\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/ http:\/\/nearlygod-driven.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/a-summary-of-case-for-reparations-by-ta.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Lawmakers on Wednesday held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on reparations, spotlighting the debate over whether the United States should consider compensation for the descendants of slaves in the United States.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-house-panel-debates-idea-of-reparations-for-slavery https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/slavery-reparations-hearing-house-committee-lawmakers-debate-bill-today-2019-06-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mitch McConnell’s response:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/time.com\/5609546\/mitch-mcconnell-slave-reparations-senate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  REPARATIONS Hello everyone, The Courageous Conversations topic for this month is reparations.\u00a0 Here are a couple of articles to start our thinking:   The Case for Reparations 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}