Reparations

Reparations

I don’t know how America is supposed to become a more perfect union if we can’t make an honest appraisal of our grosser handicaps.   Slavery is our grossest handicap. 400 years of plunder doesn’t go away by pretending it didn’t happen.  

I talked to my mother about it and I could tell she was scared.  It was like asking her to pay an impossibly high debt. When I explained the basics of some proposals for investments designed to close the racial wealth gap, the idea started to make sense to her.  It also started to seem both affordable and good.  

I am committed to talking with other white folks about race.  I want to change this country, one cracker at a time.