Dear Danny,
I never owned a slave.
You never picked cotton.
Move on, chump.
Your “Dear Danny” letter is a simple way to answer the question “On what basis are “reparations” Constitutionally permitted.”
We can talk all day long about racism, why reparations would and would not be practical, etc etc, blah blah blah, but the discussion needs to be pushed in the direction of the Constitutional threshold. If I am not mistaken, there are court cases where companies paid damages for the Holocaust and were payable to victims or their families. On the surface, one institution is still around that was pro-slavery - the demokraps. They will scream that all the slave owners went to the GOP (ROFLMAO), but too bad ... their party needs to come clean, own up to their historical beliefs/roots in slavery, and pay reparations, ... if there is a Constitutional basis to bring the action before a court, or to allow Congress to pass a law that will allow said reparations. This reparations discussion will be great if the GOP can keep the focus on the demokraps history in slavery and how it was a GOP POTUS that ended it.