Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told a House committee hearing on reparations that the effects of slavery can still be seen today.
“If I injure you, the injury persists even after I actually commit the act…that’s the case within African Americans,” Coates said.
Coates said the idea that African Americans are inferior still penetrates many people’s views and emphasized that wealthy African Americans are not immune from racial injustice.
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