Reparations (Draft.)

“What would peace among the whites bring?”
— Frederick Douglass, 1875.

People have already made the argument for reparations in the United States — more than one person has already outlined how they would go about it (one of the first being Belinda’s petition, written in 1787) — but that is not what we are talking about: instead, day after day after day, we find ourselves talking about Colin…