Who said that apologzing was the end all to be all?? It's a
START and an important start at that!
And there are several books written about the usage of slave labor to build national monuments. One is
The Debt by Randall Robinson if you want to be more specific.
I need you to
read before you respond to my comments. I said reparations isn't SOLELY about money. Most people, white folks in particular, think that the government is going to ask them to come out of their pockets to give Black folks money. That is not what organizers/supporters are simply asking for. They are asking for funding for programs/foundations to help level the playing field.
Why is it whenever dicussions about inequality are brought up on GC people get ridiculously defensive and refuse to admit that wrongs have been done to particular groups of people in this country? And refuse to see that something that may have happened 150 years ago CONTINUES to affect the country?