False Patriotism In America

In response to the criticism offered by me, Coates is likely treat it as sort of false patriotism and as being not entirely in conjunction with reality. That, racism, and discrimination based on it thereof, is an undeniable reality, even in today’s society, seen in many facets of the country, whether explicit or disguised under policies and false consciousness.

Furthermore, the fact that the discrimination is based on a system of caste and not class, that is, one which someone is born into and cannot change; defeats the purpose of providing opportunity, that each individual is, or at least should be entitled to as citizens, and hence would be construed as a violation of basic rights. Even still, the harms caused by racism are prevalent even

If we as American citizens, are entitled to ancestral property and rights, inherit with it, all the debts and other obligations owed by them, just the same. Or in other words, to choose one, and not the other, would indeed be deemed as “patriotism a la carte.” To quote Coates, “One cannot escape the question by hand-waving at the past, disavowing the acts of one’s ancestors, nor by citing a recent date of ancestral immigration.” (Coates, )
As for adopting ways to ascertain the kind or amount of compensation due as reparations, and the ways and methods of going about the same: Coates is, as supported by the text in his article, a strong advocate of Conveyers’s bill, later termed as ‘HR 40’, the “Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.” Coates firmly believes that a country that was genuinely seeking to repay its debt, would not only consider, but support this bill in an endeavor to find and assess possible solutions. “That HR 40 has never-under either Democrats or Republicans-made it to the House floor suggests our concerns are rooted not in the impracticality of reparations but in something more existential.” (Coates,

After all, this was precisely the manner in which slavery as an institution was both implemented, and abolished. Moreover, such efforts have already once been implemented in Germany, in response to the gruesome Holocaust under the Nazi party; and though initially met by a lot of aggression on behalf of the public, was a step towards the right direction and a country being true to itself, in as far as coming to terms with its past. As for the case cited of a failed system of social equality in India, we now would be equipped with the potential shortcomings of implementing such a system and could work to avoid those circumstances, treating it as a sort of framework, though not a model one. In as far as the actual risk presented in terms of implementing such a system, given the economic consequences and the previous stated facts of failure, it would be a risk worth taking for the collective good of all involved. Finally, the cause for the failure brought forth in the case of India presented earlier, is not all too clear, and is not necessarily bound to repeat itself here in America, for the two countries, though politically