Point: Monetary Reparations for Slavery Would Be Unworkable and Unjust.

REPARATIONS to African Americans; REPARATIONS for historical injustices; TRANSITIONAL justice; SLAVERY in the United States; AFRICAN American history; ECONOMIC conditions of African Americans

The article presents an argument against singling out certain individuals to receive reparations at the expense of U.S. taxpayers or consumers. It claims that the practice is a combination of greed and grandstanding that is absurd in terms of logistics and damaging in terms of its betrayal of racial progress in the country. The article also cites an improvement in several laws and policies which resulted in an improvement in the economic conditions of African Americans.