To me I believe that this topic brought to us by Ta-Nehisi Coates in her article “The Case for Reparations” might not seem relatable to anything else in class that we have read or worked on, but I found that after thinking about the topic at hand we could easily relate this topic and the takes on it to Dweck’s talk about fixed and growing mindsets in people. The question we have is “what our country might gain from the discussion” and what is the reasoning as to why this topic has yet to be talked about. In our world we have people who can move forward with time and ones who can’t the ones who can have growing mindsets along with the ones who don’t who are the “fixed mindset-ed” of our population. During the talk Dweck talks about learning in classroom and how your environment your born into or grow up in can attest to your success.
In this paragraph I connected Coates and her article to the concept of Fixed and Growth mindsets presented to us by our first article of the semester on Carol Dwecks TED talk. I explain how the case of reparations towards groups of people that were marginalized in our country’s past. While in Coates article she talk about how reparations should be paid towards these people and groups but she also explains the process of why people wont agree. When I noticed this I thought that it was closest to having growing or fixed mindset, the ones who have a growing mindset are the people that believe that things that happened in the past were wrong and things need to be fixed or made right. The other side of that argument is that some people who I would explain to be labeled with “fixed mindset” Are the group of people that would say that thing in the past should be left alone and how nobody now in time was alive or experienced the days or treatment that those others felt or went trough so why should they be the ones to receive the reparations.
HR 40 is a bill that approves the funding of money or help to the families that were discriminated against in the future. I don’t understand why this bill has yet to been passed but I understand that there is a grey area where you’ll have the “slippery slope” effect. “If we conclude that the conditions in North Lawndale and black America are not inexplicable but are instead precisely what you’d expect of a community that for centuries has lived in America’s crosshairs, then what are we to make of the world’s oldest democracy? The article by Coates connects with Scheuers point on thinking critically go hand and hand these people want departations for hundreds of years of problems created by people made as equal as them so if we were to think critically and place all of ourselves in those shoes wed all want the same from one another. They may not make things even, but they will show that we care enough about making things right with each other.
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