Reparations is a hot topic, but no dollars in sight.

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: June 15, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Several hundred blacks will gather in Washington this weekend to plot strategy for reparations, a hot topic among some black activists.

They want the government to pay them for injuries they say they suffer as a legacy of slavery, which ended 135 years ago.

After the wrangling since then over ethics, justice, morality, lawsuits and failed legislation, they are still lobbying for compensation from a system they insist has deceived them at every turn.

"It's an example of white supremacy and the climate it has created," says Dorothy Lewis, co-chairman of the National ...

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