Thank you! My Great-Great Grandfather was a Union soldier. He was a Republican and believed slavery should be abolished. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and sent home to heal. He could have asked for a medical discharge, but he chose to rejoin his unit and finish out the war.

There was a time when reparations might have been appropriate. But, that was when the people who were actually enslaved were still alive. Black people alive today could have a valid complaint against the U.S. Government, but it isn’t rooted in the days of slavery.

What black people today should be focused on are the empty promises and damaging effects the Great Society had on them as a group. They should be demanding to know where the $23 trillion went that was supposedly spent in the War on Poverty. They should be asking why their inner city communities are worse off today than they were five or six decades ago.