A Promising First Step — Canada’s Case For Reparations

Jamie Mah
4 min readJul 8, 2021

In 2014, promising young journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates penned one of the most important and landmark columns for The Atlantic. He titled it, The Case For Reparations. It was his attempt at bringing to the foreground the racial atrocities his country, the United States, had committed against it’s own black citizenry. His subtitle reads as follows:

Two hundred fifty years

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Jamie Mah

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