Do Reparations for Black People Make Sense?
In 1965, essayist and novelist, James Baldwin debated William F. Buckley--the prominent American conservative and founder of National Review--at Cambridge Union in the United Kingdom. The subject of the debate was whether ‘the American dream’ came at the expense “of the American negro.” Baldwin handed Buckley an embarrassing defeat and one of the most d…
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