“An honest assessment of America’s relationship to the black family reveals the country to be not its nurturer but it’s destroyer. And this destruction did not end with slavery.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations.

For those in need of just a few examples of how this has continued in modern America, this thread is an amazing start:

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247176506452905986?s=21 https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247176506452905986