In the nineties when I was in high school, my stepfather listened to a lot of Rush Limbaugh on AM radio. One day I was walking through the kitchen and Rush was discussing the reparations question. He had a guest on the show whose name I wish I could remember. The guest, as a prominent black businessman, thought the idea of reparations was ridiculous and promised to send anyone who contacted him a certificate pardoning them for slavery. The idea seemed so preposterous to me, but there was also poetry in it as it perfectly embodied a white fantasy.

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