A student read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article from The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” and had the following response:
While Coates makes a valid point about the mistreatment and racism shown towards African Americans, it is unfair to provide reparations to only this race, as many other types of people in America have experienced discrimination or mistreatment, including Asian-Americans, people who identify as LBGTQ, and women.
Prompt:
Construct an essay that supports or refutes this assertion, drawing evidence and examples from at least two (2) other essays, in addition to Coates’s, below.
Essays to choose from:
1. “Preface” and “The New Civil Rights” by Kenji Yoshino
2. “Race and the Opioid Epidemic” by Andrew Cohen
3. “Paper Tigers” by Wesley Yang-https://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/
4. “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay
5. “My Son, The Prince of Fashion” by Michael Chabon-com/story/my-son-the-prince-of-fashion“>https://www.gq.com/story/my-son-the-prince-of-fashion
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