“To proudly claim the veteran & disown the slaveholder is patriotism à la carte.”

You already know this, but in case you were saving it for weekend reading here’s a reminder not to miss “The Case for Reparations,” which is Ta-Nehisi Coates taking America to church; the essay is as precise and blazing and undeniable from every angle as a giant diamond under a spotlight; it should be bound as a textbook and given out as required reading in every high school history class for the rest of all time, which it won’t, and Coates should win a Pulitzer, which he’s got to.