(cont.) As White people we may decry the poor taste and homely sentiments of folks in sheets or swastika tattoos, but they are neither the people who made this world as it is, or reaped the larger share of the rewards for this world being as it is. That dishonor belongs, rather, to all of us in common.  HR 40 has been repeatedly introduced in Congress since 1989. This is a bill that merely seeks to raise the question of reparations for congressional discussion. An actual interest in the tenets of justice would translate into a thorough inquest into the material harms inflicted. At this point, there is a tremendous amount of statistical and economic analysis that could serve such a project well. There are uncontested constitutional violations in the past century. The harms committed continue, actively, into the present. 
(cont.)