The Unspoken Reason Slavery Reparations Won’t Happen

Why neither liberals nor conservatives will allow reparations

Paul Thomas Zenki
Thinkpiece Magazine
8 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Bronze statue of an African-American man, shirtless with whip scars on his back
Emancipation and Freedom Monument, Richmond, VA (Wikimedia Commons)

In cities across the US — from Santa Monica, CA, to Athens, GA, to Evanston, IL — Americans who had their lives upended and their opportunities dashed by bigoted policies and actions by their own governments are receiving at least some measure of redress for their losses…

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Paul Thomas Zenki
Thinkpiece Magazine

Ghost writer, essayist, marketer, Zen Buddhist, academic refugee, living in Athens GA, blogging at A Quiet Normal Life: https://www.quietnormal.com/