Reparations are unlikely to ever happen in this country due to its current makeup. Collaboration is needed across every level of government, and I don't see that ever happening unless certain people just up and disappear. It why the stance doesn't rate for me and my support. However, there are still ways to close the racial wealth gap if the will is there. Half-measures won't have a lasting impact. The every two-, four-, or eight-year election cycles lead to too much instability. This isn't something that needs to be done only at the federal level but also at the state and district levels. Gutting education, instituting regressive taxation that disproportionately impacts lower-income Black families, cutting taxes for the wealthy, lack of access to capital, limited homeownership opportunities, wage theft, and union-busting all exacerbate the problem. People are too suck on *just* reparations when we should be advocating for all of the above. People like Tariq and his acolytes are bad actors anyway, and should be ignored.
