REPARATIONS: PUT THE MESSENGER ASIDE

It's easy to look at the bigots and fools who paraded on the Mall this past weekend and dismiss the argument for reparations for slavery as nonsense. But there are cold, hard stats that support the movement's more rational adherents. All you have to do is look at the average dollar per pupil spent in schools - and percentage of African-Americans at those schools. When we've erased that massive gap, we can start to talk about nearing racial equality in the country. We're a long ways off.