Show of hands, who here was taught during their K-12 that Gen. Sherman tried to do right by the Black community post-Civil War? Now keep them raised if you were also taught that Andrew Johnson was the one who airlocked that shit.

And now we can barely envision reparations as anything else other than a paycheck, when we should be demanding better. No more crumbs; we want the whole loaf– and this is a good framework with which to organize that desire.