Commentary: Reparations for COINTELPRO, Not Slavery

By: Gregory Kane

If you like cheap victories, then you’re probably THRILLED that the U.S. Congress apologized for slavery last week.

Too bad I don’t like cheap victories.

But the “Baltimore Afro-American” thought the event was so significant that it ran a front-page story, “above the fold” as we say in the newspaper business, about the apology.

And what does the apology mean? Why, absolutely nothing, of course.

The black folks who were poor and living in America’s inner cities the day before the apology were still living there the day after. Those going to schools doing more miseducating than educating will likely return to those schools either later this month or in September.

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