“With the racial divide stoked by President Donald Trump’s racial bias, the need for some healing among the races is a progressive and necessary policy and redress and reparations promote this healing so that we can move toward a less factionalized, less racially divided country,” Minami said.
Reparations for the descendants of African slaves has been talked about ad infinitum, yet there has been virtually no legislative action taken to make this happen. (Congressman John Conyers could not even to get a reparations bill out of committee for more than twenty years—to simply do a study on reparations.) Today’s column summarizes a “major” conference at Harvard University about slavery, universities and reparations. A New York Times article by Jennifer Schussler, Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery, recaps the conference.
But they unleashed a five-month reign of terror, with the court handing down its toughest penalty for sadistic, cruel rapes and murders.