Are you prepared to go back through the rest of history and pay reparations to each and every group of people who have ever been enslaved? If not, then why start now? This website is a white-hating vortex of bullshit.

I think that it's hard to categorize exactly what reparations would look like, especially considering that all persons affected by slavery (the hurt runs through many generations) may want different things.

The fact is, racism still exists. We are most certainly not a "color blind" society. Institutionalized racism prohibits equal opportunity in many sectors (blacks are still paid 70 cents on the dollar when compared to whites). I think we need recognition of the continuing struggles of the underrepresented and we need to proactively -- as a community and as a country -- work to change the damage that was done in addition to the damage still felt. Reparations is in the eye of the beholder, and each view is valid.

As a high school English teacher, I often ask my students to read the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Olaudah Equiano. After reading their stories of survival and agency, we consider the question of reparations. I include a research component that requires them to find arguments in favor and opposition to reparations. This is a great new resource that I can use to help my students consider this critically important discussion. Personally, I agree with Henry Louis Gates' assertion that any conversation about reparations must include a payment of some kind to the countries in Africa that lost millions of human talent and leadership. While a price can not be attached to a human being, debt forgiveness for several African nations might be a step forward.