After reading Clarence Page’ s commentary, “Reparation rip-offs exploit dreams” (Commentary, Feb. 6), I was compelled to write.
These bogus reparations tax scams are primarily targeting southern black churches, which are full of elderly black women. It’s easier to understand why such a vulnerable group could believe the scams since they could rightly benefit most from such a windfall.
Most black American taxpayers realize that no check will ever be in the mail for slavery reparations, let alone for the Black Codes, the Jim Crow years, lynchings, burnings, castrations, segregation, stealing of property, oppression, poverty, redlining, profiling and discrimination. The list is endless.
Will it take another 300 years before we realize we’re all in this together?
