Editor,
Please, one last word on reparations for slavery and David Horowitz. For the past three years or so, as a researcher, I've followed this controversial and often heated issue. Across the nation, most white Americans are vehemently against reparations of any sort.
Hell, you mention a mere apology for slavery and their shorts get all knotted. I truly believe that if the U.S. government ever considered monetary reparations for black Americans, it would be the start of another civil war.
As for David Horowitz, I'm very familiar with his Frontpage Magazine Web site, a huge message board where perhaps thousands of mostly conservative white Americans rant about "the other race." I only have one thing to say to Mr. Horowitz, go get a real job, advice he readily gives to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Most black American taxpayers realize that no check will ever be in the mail for slavery reparations, let alone for the 100 years after, the Black Codes, the Jim Crow years, lynchings, burnings, castrations, segregation, theft of property, oppression, poverty, redlining, profiling and discrimination. The list is endless.
Will it take another 300 years before we realize that we're all in this together? Peace.
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Pamela A. Hairston
Washington, D.C., researcher
