Lawyer, author, and activist Randall Robinson has long fought for slavery reparations for African Americans. He wrote: “When I talk about reparations, I am not merely talking about restitution to the contemporary victims of American slavery for slavery and the century of the de jure discrimination that followed it. I am talking about the repair of our general society. I am talking about the resuscitation of compassion. I am talking about the essential notions of decency in a viable democratic society.” Robinson was president of the TransAfrica Forum and author of “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.”
