2/ Race-based policies are important but of themselves they treat symptom & not cause. This can’t just be about financial restitution; it also has to be about healing the spiritual malfunction that led to the problem (slavery) and continues to re-create it (police brutality etc).

3/A politics that only treats symptoms is like allopathic medicine; it eradicates a symptom but the symptom in time can morph into another one. So psychological and emotional elements are equal in importance to the financial measures required for genuine reparation. Both matter.

4/ Real reparations, an integrative holistic 21st-century approach, means full acknowledgment of an evil that occurred, a damage that was done to one people by another and the willingness of the former to compensate for that damage.

5/ The issue is to not just acknowledge the inequity, the systemic racism that causes such a gap in opportunity between blacks and whites. The issue is to also acknowledge where the gap came from...

6/ ... give credit to our ancestors both black and white who have tried to close that gap, and take full responsibility for the ways in which we’ve not only allowed the gap to continue but have even in many ways widened it in our time.

7/ Anyone who has looked at those videos of black men being dragged out of their cars by vicious police and doesn’t see the throwback to slavery doesn’t know too much about slavery. We’re in a moment of moral emergency. It’s the task of our generation to not just address racism.