Reparations: The Pipe Dream that many Black public intellectuals keep selling…
In many parts of the Black public intellectual world (and the accompanying social media commentary of such), the conversation regarding the larger issues of systemic and institutional racism / white supremacy involves the issue of “reparations.” Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Alexander, Boyce Watkins, Umar Johnson; these are a few of the people who attempt to make an argument about why some level of reparations is owed to African Americans. Now wh
