Another great one, Professor!!🙏🏾 You succinctly lay out the important points about why reparations are due. And as much as folk like to talk about Lincoln as some "Great Emancipator" (including his homeboy Obama), he and his ilk had several schemes up there sleeves to get rid of us. I'm a link hog and had these in my "Blogs to Write" file for some time. I never wrote this one (I'm also a major procrastinator!) but I thought I'd share them here as they go right along with what you've written:
https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7