[okie01]

"The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. Black nationalists have always perceived something unmentionable about America that integrationists dare not acknowledge—that white supremacy is not merely the work of hotheaded demagogues, or a matter of false consciousness, but a force so fundamental to America that it is difficult to imagine the country without it…."

"What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt."

Really, Mr. Coates. If you feel so strongly about the matter, I will personally pay for you and your family to be re-settled in the African nation of your choice. I will do this not to banish any sense of "white guilt", but simply to rid the nation of a bad apple.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He and his family ain’t goin’ nowhere. They know when they’ve got a good thing goin’. Blacks in this country (even the poorest) are far better off than almost all blacks in any other place. Who in the world would pay him mid-six-figures to scribble his nonsense anywhere but here?