The reparations discussions need to include everyone

The Blacks or Moors, controlled Spain for more than 700 years.  They created and perfected slavery.  They went and got religious doctrine started.  They were the West Coast Africans who captured and sold slaves.  They were Muslim.  They were Jews.  They were Christian.

They intermarried and had children who became slave traders and slaves.

The Native Americans were enslaved.

The Irish and English poor were enslaved.   This is how the term "kidnapping" started.

Even Native Americans and Blacks owned slaves.

There are blue-eyed, blonde haired descendants of slaves as of today.  Will they be allowed reparations?

"Saving the souls of the savages" is a Christian doctrine which allowed Child welfare to assume the roles of the institution of slavery.

I will be revising my book on the subject and look forward to a provocative engagement of discussion.

This is my response to an op-ed in the New York Times regarding reparations:

We Need a ‘Reparations Superfund’

How is the nation to measure, or rather, "qualify" a person as African American? Will there be genetic instruments constructed to establish policy criteria or will they be developed exclusively as a determinant quantum blood level? Will recently nationalized citizens of African immigration qualify for participation? If the "one-drop" rule is to be used, that would mean the numbers of those who would qualify as African American would exponentially grow as many, whether knowingly or willingly, will claim to qualify for the societal benefits of reparations. American slavery was not exclusive to those of African decent. History tells us that the transgressors of this peculiar institution were also victims of religious doctrines in the name of colonization as they were not uniquely of European decent. These discussions must take place in order to begin a global examination of national policy, but all historic participants must be involved. The time has come to correct the history books and elevate the conversation to cease the application of the non-empirical, separate yet equal doctrine of racial classifications. The human condition is economic for which the nexus of this argument is entrenched in the codification of poverty, Perhaps the time has come to revisit the civil rights mantra of "Jobs, Justice and Peace" for modification to include "Commerce, Education and Legacy."

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