Seeking More Than Apologies For Slavery

A Washington Post article discusses how reparations activists see the apologies of various companies for allowing slaves to be used as business collateral, as a prelude to reparation payments. What stuck out for us: "CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll in 2002 showed that nine out of 10 white Americans said the government should not make cash reparations payments, while half of black respondents said it should. Sixty-two percent of white respondents also believed that the government should not apologize to African Americans for underwriting slavery, while 68 percent of African Americans said it should."

So there is a black consensus on an apology (which Booker Rising supports), but not for reparations (which Booker Rising believes have already been paid: the billions in affirmative action, Great Society, War On Poverty, etc. Most black folks are now middle-class, so individual challenges now primarily obstruct folks, not racism). No surprise about white attitudes though.