I want to address the Reparations issue as it has been raised here. (And this is info, not argument.)

"Reparation" is is not always just a dollar-thing, but can also be a behavior-thing and a priority-thing.

For example, the day I learned that my mother had died, yes I was shocked into pausing in my particular anti-racism ministry for a whole day. But when I had the very first thought about that AR ministry, I stopped what I was doing and went straight to the computer to do the next step in that work, which had been left pending.

And then I simply kept it a priority amongst the funeral planning (women juggle well), and the grieving that followed, because in my world I know babies who are dying; "care for the living" trumps "care of the dead," in my book, whenever it can, and in this world I know, most of the mothers of these darker babies do not have the choices that most of the mothers of the paler babies have.

And my choices, in that, are a form of Reparation.

Reparation does not necessarily equate to Guilt-- it's not an emotional thing. For me, it's:

a commitment
made in logic
and then
simply and unflinchingly
carried out
by will.

Because in my circles, that is Ally Behavior.

~Susan