Tag / Race
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Reparations for Conservatives
If conservative Americans and their elected representatives thought of their history of racism as a financial debt that must be repaid to their creditors, would they be more likely to support reparations for African-Americans? Paying off the national debt, though not headline news at the moment, has been the conservative rallying cry since the twilight…
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The (Libertarian) Case for Reparations
In his piece “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates details the ways in which white supremacy and racism have had a lasting impact on black communities. As the title of the article suggests, Coates argues that the best way to right the terrible wrongs that have been done to African-Americans is through reparations. While no…
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The Sidewalks Kept Me Off the Streets
We’ve seen it before. We might even have one hanging in our closet or resting in our drawer. The omnipresent Tupac, the illustrious Biggie, peering down on us through well-circulated images of their countenances, plastered on dorm walls and printed on T-shirts. Any college student can recognize these ubiquitous images, state a couple sentences’ background…
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Remembering Jackie Robinson: Racial Equality in Sports
BY BENJAMIN COMPALL If Jackie Robinson were alive today, I wonder how he would feel about the current racial state of sports. Surely, as the first African American professional baseball player, he would feel great pride in seeing how far things have come. As Americans, we love these “first-ever” narratives- and Robinson’s holds a particularly…
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Oblivious
BY ARYEH MELLMAN The shooting of Michael Brown is just one example of the notion that in a myriad of ways in their everyday lives, people with black skin are treated differently than people with white skin. But don’t just take it from me: ask President Obama, who remarked in a speech about Trayvon Martin…
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Wrighton to the NAACP: Don’t Worry, There’s a School for That
BY SARAH HULL A few weeks ago, I sat in on a debate here at the University of Cape Town, where I am currently studying abroad. The debate was in reference to the upcoming South African presidential elections. After a lot of discussion of different policies, initiatives and goals of the various parties, someone in…
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Racial Segregation Indices in Metro Areas, From Past to Present
BY DANIEL RAGGS III
