And it is a cotton-pickin’ shame that nobody can shake off the hate.
Yes, the country DID embrace bad racism for centuries, though far from unanimously. That was hate. But what did the victims of this do? They embraced their own hate. Which lasted long after the earlier hate was officially abolished.
Now what do we have. Hatefest.
The only actual reparation that could be done would be to share the gospel with black America afresh. And you aren’t going to see Barack Obama championing this.