Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

[Glassunion]

47. Folks make a lot of assumptions on what "reparations" exactly are. Other's just don't want a black

family to get something that a white family doesn't also get.

If you're assuming that reparations are solely a cash payout, you are not correct. Yes, there are some who feel that reparations should be a cash payout, however not everyone feels this way. Reparations can take many forms. The definition of reparation is: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury - Webster

I am a descendant of slaves. I seek no cash payout. Ever. However, I do feel that the United States could do a whole lot in regards to reparation for slavery, and Jim Crow. Would a form of reparation, in ensuring that our public and private education include a bit more than the ever so slim 1/2 a chapter in social studies on the topic of slavery be acceptable? Remember that one history book that called the population increase due to slavery as a "Pattern of Immigration"? How about African American children not being subject to attending public schools named after the very Confederates that fought to enslave them? Perhaps honoring the slaves that help build this nation into what it is today? Could we try a little harder to humanize the institution that was slavery, and the following century of laws, policies, and attitudes towards the black community? Would this be out of line?

But perhaps it is too much to ask that there be more education, or for the country to accept it's dark past by acknowledging it. Can't have a slavery monument, because it gives white folks a sad. Can't educate folks on the "Cornerstone Speech", because they may realize that flag ain't really about Southern Pride and state's rights. We don't want to step on the toes of the socially dominant. They're quite content where they are.