Explanation:
1. Why begin this article with a quote from the Old Testament and one from John Locke?
2. Why use Clyde Ross, a resident of North Lawndale in particular, to illustrate much of this article?
3. Just considering housing as a topic, how does housing policy illustrate systematic racism?
4. "We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions.
We do this because we recognize our links to the past - at least when they flatter us. But black history does not
flatter American democracy; it chastens it.... White supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded
demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to
imagine the country without it." From Coates' evidence, explain this.
5. What would "paying reparations" to American blacks look like to Coates?
R8 Coates The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic cory.pdf
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Answer:
World War 1 vs World War 2
• WW1 was mainly confined to Europe while WW2 had entire world as its theater.
• Warfare and arms used in WW1 were primitive in nature and the war was mainly fought digging trenches. On the other hand, airpower was heavily used in WW2 with atom bombs dropped in Japan being termed as the Holocaust.
• Radio got invented which was heavily used in WW2 while there were only landline phones in WW1
• Germany suffered defeats in both WW1 and WW2 but while it wisely acknowledged defeat in WW1, Hitler chose to fight till the bitter end in WW2 leading to mass destruction
• WW2 saw 7 times more casualties than WW1
• There was only Mustard gas as WMD in WW2 while Atom bombs were used for the first and last time as WMD in WW2
• League of Nations was born with the end of WW1 while the end of WW2 gave birth to United Nations
• WW1 was based on imperialism while WW2 was a result of the clash of ideologies
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