Sunday, June 23, 2019

Will slavery-reparations debates be intellectually bankrupt?

Or will the debates be informed by articles like this one, from a professor at a highly-ranked philosophy program?

Which only invites the question: on what other subjects could the national debate be improved by input from philosophers?

Is Ta-Nehisi Coates the strongest representative for the pro-reparations argument (for either citing or attacking)?  Wouldn't black people benefit tremendously from their case being put forward most prominently/visibly by a philosopher?  Etc. etc. etc.

Shouldn't black kids be put on a vigorous philosophy for children regimen (along with all the other children of course) so that, when older and in concert, they could make their case most strongly (and know the other side's case just as well, etc.)?