Reparations have never been offered. Freed slaves fought for and won land redistributed from plantation owners, plus the Freedmen’s Bureau which the 14th Amendment was created to legalize, facilitating mass distribution of food, tools, dry goods, cash relief, clothing, and education, and the solemn promise from President Lincoln of 40 acres and a mule, a promise that is now due with interest, as are the stolen deposits of the government-endorsed Freedman’s Savings Bank, and the wealth destroyed by pogroms, and by the way the unremunerated labor of one to dozens of generations.