When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.