reparation

"Oberlin’s president defiantly says “none of this will sway us from our core values.” Those values — moral arrogance, ideology-induced prejudgments, indifference to evidence — are, to continue using the progressive patois, the root causes of Oberlin’s descent beyond caricature and into disgrace." Will on Oberlin's disastrous calumny and mendacity in their libeling a local merchant.

Mom had dinner at Superior Motors with her high school class.
I really hurt yesterday and last night after what is laughingly call my "Physical Therapy."

For the second week in a row, a small Florida city has agreed to pay cyber criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars after a ransomware attack crippled city systems.

A factory storekeeper in the Nzara township of Sudan became ill on this day in 1976. Five days later, he died, and the world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins making its way through the area. By the time the epidemic was over, 284 cases were reported, with about half of the victims dying from the disease. Symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever generally begin about four to 15 days after a person is infected with the virus. 

                                                     Reparations

Definition of reparation. 1a : a repairing or keeping in repair. b reparations plural : repairs. 2a : the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury. b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction.

So such an act requires someone who has damaged someone and that person who has been damaged by him.
Slavery in the Nineteenth Century was a way of life throughout the world. It still is in some places --but not here. No one in the U.S. is responsible for anyone's slavery in the Nineteenth Century. Some may have had slave owning ancestors, but few. Far more had ancestors who went to war and freed the slaves. (People strangely rarely talked about.)

Ex post facto is most typically used to refer to a criminal statute that punishes actions retroactively, thereby criminalizing conduct that was legal when originally performed. Two clauses in the United States Constitution prohibit ex post facto laws: 1. Art 1, § 9 1. This prohibits Congress from passing any laws which apply ex post facto. 2. Art. 1 § 10. 1. This prohibits the states from passing any laws which apply ex post facto.
"It is settled, by decisions of this Court so well known that their citation may be dispensed with, that any statute which punishes as a crime an act previously committed, which was innocent when done, which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission, or which deprives one charged with crime of any defense available according to law at the time when the act was committed, is prohibited as ex post facto."-- Beazell v. Ohio, 269 U.S. 167 (1925)

So criminalizing slavery now in a period when it was legal is ex post facto. It doesn't matter what you think of it now, it matters completely how it was assessed then. If you change the speed limit today from 65 to 55, you can not arrest a guy for driving 60 yesterday.

Reparations are often used in reference to payments made by a defeated enemy, which in this case might make some sense.

Reparations for slavery are like so many of the whims of the far Left. They are so illogical, so unreasonable, so unjust and so far from the experience of most people that they are hard to grapple with. But that doesn't make them any more logical, just or reasonable. There is a word for holding total strangers guilty for events no one remembers: Vendetta.

Sometimes being cruel to be kind is just being crazy.