Letter: Many very simple ways to make up for sins of slavery

Many very simple ways to
make up for sins of slavery

It looks like some Democratic politicians are at it again — identity politics in the extreme. I’m talking here about the reparations bill. Anyone truly due reparations for the past wrongs is dead.

What is a black anyway? Does Obama, who is half black, fit the definition? What if you are a quarter black? What if you are one of the over 9 million mixed race people living in the U.S.? Where do you fit in?

There are so many ways, some very simple, to make up for the sins of slavery, and the following Jim Crow area, than to figure out how this complicated and highly divisive law would work. We need to get back to serious business to create a society where everyone is born with equal rights, equal opportunities and equal responsibilities.

Gerald Manata
Walnut Creek

 

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