Despite its popularity in some circles, the push for reparations is misguided. It confuses envy with justice, punishes personal achievement, and imposes collective guilt on individuals who bear no responsibility for slavery or Jim Crow. Far from healing the nation, it threatens to inflame racial divisions and perpetuate dependency. To understand why, we must examine the origins, logic, and consequences of the reparations movement — and why a better, more unifying path exists for Black America.

Those reforms were simple and necessary: if you are not a citizen, you shouldn’t receive benefits funded by those who are. But Democrats couldn’t stand to see those loopholes closed because welfare dependence is the backbone of their political power. Now, they are trying to bring back every loophole and loophole-funded program under the pretense of “equity” and “access.”