Wednesday 8 January 2020

How arguments for change may inadvertently keep things the same

How arguments for change may inadvertently keep things the same I was having lunch with some friends recently, and the topic of racial privilege and historical injustices came up. One friend mentioned an argument being made in the USA advocating that these injustices might be redressed by the current-day beneficiaries giving (or returning) assets to those who had been previously wronged (see, for example, Ta-Nehisi Coates on the case for reparations in 2014 and 2019). As Harvard’s David Williams described to us at our Annual Conference this year, these injustices can have long-lasting consequences. The King's Fund

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