White People Have Vital Role To Play in Reparations Talk

Greenville, Mississippi Mayor Errick Simmons speaks with Democratic Presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week. Warren supports reparations talk. (Photo Credit: Kelsey Davis, Mississippi)

By Kevin C. Peterson

Lately there has been much positive talk on the national level from white people concerning reparations for black people. That’s good.

Talk about reparations — and its connection to the national sin of slavery — is ameliorative for the body politic. Such talk makes the possibility of a truly multiracial democracy more…