Whatever your stance is on slavery reparations, you owe it to the public to get the stats right. A widely cited statistic from Ed Baptist that Ta Nehisi Coates used in his recent testimony is both wrong and absirdly exaggerated.

Whatever your stance is on slavery reparations, you owe it to the public to get the stats right. A widely cited statistic from Ed Baptist that Ta Nehisi Coates used in his recent testimony is both wrong and absirdly exaggerated. I explain how here: https://t.co/QX826Jv05X

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) June 23, 2019