maybe you and Mr. Keyes will get one of the things you want—reparations.
Mister Keyes’ actual reparations proposal required a genealogy to exclude anyone who wasn’t descended from actual American slaves from getting a check, and another to see who was descended from an actual slave owner to see who owed such monies.
I could certainly live with the consternation implementing his proposal would engender amongst the Jesse Jackson crowd.
Especially since my ancestors (west Asian Slavs, Scotch, and Irish) didn’t come over until the 1880s.
So while I didn’t really think the whole thing was necessary, I can see where my immunity from any chance of having had to participate may have made the proposal less odious to me than to others.