Debt Again

I was about to write about how long it had been since I had heard any reparations noise, but then I opened the Baltimore Sun yesterday and there it was: reparations blather. I sent the following letter to the editor:

In her essay "Healing the Divide," Taunya Lovell Banks argues that "racial reconciliation" is the missing component to the argument for reparations. Rather than unearth this key component, Professsor Banks has shown us a new whip for the proverbial dead horse. The good news about the argument for reparations is that its time has come. The bad news is that its time is long gone. My grandfather's parents were eligible for reparations, but I am not.