1/ The difference between race-based policies and reparations Is that reparations contain an inherent mea culpa. They’re recognition of a wrong that was done, a debt that is owed and the willingness on the part of a people to pay it.

2/ Germany has paid $89 billion in reparations to Jewish organizations. It doesn’t mean that the Holocaust didn’t happen, but it has gone far toward establishing emotional and psychological reconciliation between Germany and the Jews of Europe.

i think marianne has supported a number between 200-500 billion spread out over 20 years