I favor reparations, on the following basis: One, that reparations consist of restoring people to the state they'd be in if they'd never been enslaved: starving and dying in the pesthole that is Africa today. Don't get me wrong--slavery is some repugnant shit, and I'd never argue that a slave is better off than a free man, but... okay, I might argue that. Who's better off today? The descendants of the slaves in America, or the descendants of the West African tribes that sold them into sl...