Elsewhere, rapper Killer Mike praised the idea on Real Time with Bill Maher: “We deserve all the drug war reparations because we have shouldered the burden of the drug war. We deserve it for the time we're serving alone,” he said, acknowledging that the word “reparations” is a sensitive one. Their non-profit organization advocates for people of color in the cannabis industry and was one of the plaintiffs that sued Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mona Zhang: What do you make of all this controversy over the use of the word “reparations”? Zhang: She wrote an op-ed quoting Michelle Alexander also using the word “reparations” to talk about the drug war.

Source: Forbes May 15, 2018 10:52 UTC