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No, actually he never supported reparations, which are payments from the Treasury. Some of his enemies, inside and outside the Democrat Media have misrepresented that. Sorry to see you propagating it, too.

Here’s Keyes himself on this subject, during the 2004 Senate race:

KRESTA: I want to ask you about reparations. I think in the past when asked about reparations you’ve said, well, we’ve had reparations, it was called the Civil War and blood was shed. Have you changed your position?

KEYES: Well, no, actually I have written articles and talked about this before, and have always made the same point.

I don’t think there can in fact be reparations for the injustice that was done in slavery. I think Lincoln was right, that the judgment about that was in fact involved in the Civil War, his famous second inaugural address that is so beautiful, regarding that the “judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” He presented the Civil War as, in essence, a judgment from God about the evil of slavery. And I think that’s correct.

The issue that’s involved in true reparations—and when I have written about this, I’ve put the liberal proposals in quotes because I think what they were doing was a form of extortion, just trying to go to court to get some money out of people’s pockets so they could put it in something they controlled, and so forth, and pretend that this was going to be requital for injustice, when in fact injustice can’t be requited in that way, by one generation trying to do something about a sin committed by a previous one, when in point of fact that sin has already been requited by the previous generation.

http://www.keyesarchives.com/media/interviews/04_09_09kresta.htm