“...reparations, the idea that the descendants of American slaves should receive compensation for their ancestors’ unpaid labor and bondage.”
Why stop there? Why not compensate all the descendants of displaced American Indians? Did deep Al, Jesse. You stand on and benefit from stolen land. Give up the jack.
It would have been a good idea back in the 1860, to break up the old plantation s and give them to freed slaves and poor whites. But too late now.