Twenty-five years ago, a close friend, Tommie Jenkins, gave the writer a book entitled, “SHOULD AMERICA PAY?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations.” It traced the call for reparations by African peoples back to the period of Reconstruction. The book is well-documented and should be required reading not just for advocates of reparations, but […]
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