In The Case for Reparations" (The Atlantic, June 2014) Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that "the New Deal is today remembered as a model for what progressive government should do cast a broad social safety net that protects the poor and the afflicted while building the middle class." Coats is ultimately critical of this memory of the New Deal. What is wrong with remembering the New Deal as a "model" for progressive government, according to Coates? What long-term problems did the New Deal create, particularly for Black Americans? How do you think we should remember the New Deal, as a grand set of progressive policies that lifted America from the doldrums of the Depression and created a set of policies that have led to economic stability for millions of Americans, or as a set of policies that exacerbated and then hardened deep racial divides in American society?