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Resentful lefties are making a new push for reparations. My own research reveals they know nothing about American history

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The push is back on for slavery reparations.

In July, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued a report urging the immediate adoption of reparations. As Lanessa Owens-Chaplin — one of the report’s authors and Director of the Racial Justice Center at NYCLU — puts it:

“Reparations are a debt that is owed. Enslaved Black people built the foundation of New York’s economy… Reparations must be extended to all Black New Yorkers descended from those enslaved by New York State.”

The NYCLU report is predicated on an undeniable reality: the persistent wealth gap between black and white households. But all this fails to grapple with the central problem of reparation payments: Not all white New Yorkers benefited from slavery, but all New Yorkers would have to shell out to support the payments.

I uncovered the complications of the issue when, as part of a local America 250 project, I researched the history of slavery in my own Westchester County suburb. The town of Rye was once an agricultural village on the shores of the Long Island Sound. Small family farms stood side-by-side larger estates on which the enslaved labored, raising beef cattle and produce bound for the Manhattan market.

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