Let’s Talk: About Reparations
By Conference Minister Diane Weible I read an interesting article in The New York Times article last month entitled, “No Easy Answers on Reparations” by Adeel Hassan. It resonated with me as I have often thought about the issue of reparations and why it is important for us to talk about it and consider it. Hassan wrote the article because, although Americans have avoided the topic for many years, a series of public events have signaled that maybe we are ready to talk about it now. Hassan quoted a Ta-Nehisi Coates article that appeared in The Atlantic: “Mr. Coates and…