Why I’m skeptical of reparations. Part 1: Dropping large bowel movements on blacks for hundreds of years.

Was slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation really that bad? Did American society really repeatedly screw the descendants of slaves like some say? The answer is yes, and it begs the question…should the United States pay some sort of reparation in a formal apology for slavery and discrimination? The answer to that is complicated.

Below, I cover the dark history of American society’s poor treatment of blacks. Then I describe a reparations program I’d be…