And I join you in lightly discounting any moral or political case for reparations. In fact, I go beyond discounting and proceed directly to accounting funds expended since 1965 in efforts to conduct a “war on poverty” as applied to any possible debt that may have ever existed by those already deceased, both white and black. When that accounting is complete, I believe the American taxpayer is due a refund for the lack of results. All those funds did was prove what was said two millennia ago: “You shall always have the poor with you.”
Good point. Or at least, we could stop spending money in the same counterproductive way.