There were also some Jewish slave traders. Christians were not the only people who profited from the slave trade.

I don't have any good answers on the subject of reparations, but I do think we owe it to the people who come from families of exploited peoples to provide them with the best education possible. And that means adequately funding programs like Head Start, and also after-school programs that can help students function more effectively in academic settings.

Many of the children of such families don't get enough parental supervision because their parents have to work more than one job just to survive. These children need more nurturing adult influences in their lives, and if it requres some tax payer money to make it happen, it's much more to the benefit of society as a whole to provide it for these things than it is to use it to kill people in other countries for oil.