Brayan Barreto

11/4/19

FIQWS 10115 JPOE

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                ‘’ The Case for Reparations “

In this article, Ta-Nehisi convey the idea that people of color were belittled from  the Jim Crow law by taken advantaged and discriminated through the use of diction and imagery in order to make the reader visualize and understand what’s occurring. Jim Crow law was a way for southerners people to segregated people of color. To begin, “ The Case for Reparation ” purpose is to highlight the cases were people of color had been powerless due to the laws and activity from those who enslave them for 250 years. This is a big deal because even when everyone had freedom southerners people still search for methods to make white people who are suffering property or still be supremacy by the robbery, taxation, and penalty toward people of color when they miss a delay or not collaborated. For example, the author suggests “  Some of the land taken from black families has become a country club in Virginia . . . oil field in Mississippi . . . a baseball spring training facility in Florida ( pg 2). “ People of color were unprotected from any laws or government which gave the upper hand to white people and strip out black people from their properties. As this occurs, the lives of black families was tough growing up since young black children has to witness racism, mistreatments, harassment and inequality. The word “ taken” and “ become “ stood out because the word taken was basically meant that black people had been wiped out from their hard work and seen unimportant. The word become was basically a tool ( people of color ) were white people could use them to become more wealthy and buttpress them. Adding on, the author reveal that slavery was a form to change all white men soceconomic structure in the society which make people of color lower their standard level. For instance, “ The vending of the black body and the sundering of the black family become an economy unto themselves, estimated to have brought in tens of millions of dollars to antebellum America ( pg 14 ). “ This meant that people of color was a major factor to both white people and the economic raise due to easy labor use for such little money and a useful resource to gain more benefit. The benefit from these people of color was that white people could make a potential profit from taxation due to certain unfollowed order and make an interest on them.

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