Hello Mr. (Charley) Reese — I read your articles often, this is the first time I was pulled to writing something about your article. You are usually very perceptive on your subject matter. But on slavery and reparation you are unaware. I agree that reparation is not the answer to what the white race did to the black race. There is not enough money in the USA to repay for the damage that was done to the black American race. When you take a race of people and deprive them of their freedom for 300 hundred years and pass a law that makes it a crime if that race of people are taught to read, you have done irreparable harm to that race. When you work this black race in your fields and whatever use you force this race to perform without any pay, only harsh treatment if this black race complained. When you take a black family and because you own this black family decide to sell a member of this family when it has a cash flow problem … How long do you suppose it will take these family members to forgive the white race for performing this infernal deed? How much money would that be worth to the injured black family when you sold his son, daughter, wife, husband, brother, sister going back two or three hundred years … how much money with interest would balance the books for this black race family? All the while your race is sending their children to schools, colleges, universities and all type of trade schools while forbidding the other race children to learn their A, B, Cs. How many hundreds of years Mr. Reese do you project that it will take for the American black race to be on the same knowledge, education, rationale, wisdom level with the American white race?

You make the argument that the American white race today cannot be held responsible for slavery which happened hundreds of years ago … well you are wrong, because each and everyone of their great, great, grandparents benefited from slavery of the American black race and the Jim Crow laws passed by the white American race. And they passed these benefits down to their offsprings who are still reaping those rewards today. You should read about Willie Lynch and what he did with his slave consultant process purchased by the American white race in 1712 to humble the American black race so they would make better slaves. He said, “if you put this process of mine into controlling the minds your slaves, it would dissemble this American black race for 300 years … maybe even a 1000.”

I only have four more years to make Willie Lynch a liar. Offering the American black race money for what your race has put the American black race through is an insult. Mr. Reese you should do more research when you begin to write about what the American black race needs or doesn’t need. That ‘s all I have to share with you and I am anxious to move on.



Robert J. Ray

Meridian