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
The Rise of American Consumerism. At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one they had left four years earlier. ... Jobs were plentiful, wages were higher, and because of the lack of consumer goods during the war, Americans were eager to spend.
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There were many changes, some good and some not so good.The biggest positive change was the replacement of French feudal laws with the Napoleonic Code - a modern, simplified code of law that laid the foundation for much of modern European law.