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Coates said he wrote an essay using Israel as an analogy for Black America, noting that no one questioned the reparations comparison.
when I went to write the case for reparations and I wrote that section about using the state of Israel as an analog for Black America, nobody questioned it.
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Episode: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel: ‘I Felt Lied To.’
Coates said he wrote an essay using Israel as an analogy for Black America, noting that no one questioned the reparations comparison.
when I went to write the case for reparations and I wrote that section about using the state of Israel as an analog for Black America, nobody questioned it.