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
Answer:
Francis Drake
Explanation:
Sir Francis Drake was ordered by Queen Elizabeth to decimate the supply of Peruvian gold to Spain.
Fertile Crescent, which arcs from the Persian Gulf to Turkey and south to Egypt
During the Cold War there was a concern in the United States over the expansion of communism. This fear of communism manifested itself in the domino theory an idea which governed much of us foreign policy starting in the 1950s. The domino theory was essentially the idea that if one nation fell to communism its neighboring counties would as well and this process would repeat itself almost resembling a row of dominos falling (hence the name). Because of this theory many political leaders in the us feared that if former French colonies like Vietnam fell to communism than their neighboring counties would as well including Laos, Cambodia, etc.
