Slavery Reparations. What Does That Even Mean?

Okay, count me on board morally. Slavery was one of America’s most egregious shames

and more Americans were killed in our Civil War than all other wars combined. But I've got an ethical problem with handing out cash.

Emancipation didn’t actually solve

anything for black Americans. Up to and including today, we

simply played out the white/black American conundrum by other means, such as

voting rights violations, segregation, economic isolation, backwater education

and ghettos.

And now we think we can make things right with money?

Well, that’s my stop. Here's where I get off the bus and, until very recently,

it was from the front of the bus.

Last week’s congressional hearing

brought out calls for a long unmet duty to be met, rebutted by

what was done 200 years ago is of no consequence to white Americans today.

No consequence, huh? Racism in America today is the

consequence.

Those facing elections—and

they’re all facing elections— tellingly kicked the can down the road by

promising to hold a hearing on t…