What we need to do is stop trying to make the point and look to the best who ever made the point for us....'In My Face is Black, Is True; Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations' by Mary Frances Berry, Frederick Douglass is quoted on page 39:

Initially, Douglass responded that he found the reparations idea impractical, but finally decided that the nation owed retribution to African Americans (descendents of African slaves, I say), for the nation had "robbed him of the rewards of his labor during more than 200 years." Furthermore, Douglass continued, the promise of land had been broken: "The Egyptian bondsmen went out with the spoils of his master, and the Russian serf was provided with farming tools and three acres of land with which to begin life, -but the Negro has neither spoils, implements nor lands, and today, he is practically a slave on the very plantation where formerly he was driven to toil under the lash." Douglass asserted that if land had been given as promised during the Civil War, "The [N]egro would not be on his knees, as he is supplicating the old master class to give him leave to toil." [If something had been done] "untold misery might have been prevented."

Even Martin supported reparations in the 'I Have a Dream' speech when he stated America has given descendents of African slaves a check marked 'Insufficient funds' (to paraphrase). But we've been programmed to focus on the dream part...dreams aren't real. Crimes against humanity with no statue of limitation in International Law are. Why is there a clause in the recent Senate apology which denies liability for reparations? They scared. No fellas, if you say it enough times it will never be true. It's just a matter of time and is it me or has it been flying by lately? Isaiah 60:22. “The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.” ... Peace to NOI for the 'Reparations Now' cover on the Final Call.