If people read what I wrote last time, you would know that I have

worked for black causes. I've done much more than I wrote about

and our family walks the talk. I have two partly black grandchildren.

I truly believe the country owes black people something, but not

reparations.

First and foremost as Campbell acknowledges, if you succeeded

you would be confronted with lawsuits from the Indians. Just how

much is the land our ancestors took from them worth?

Secondly, this is an idea that has not been thought through.

Assuming you could come up with an amount, where would the

money come from? The treasury is funded in part by taxes on

black people. Whom would you pay it to? All black people?

What about Tiger Woods? Not all black people are decended from

slaves. There were free blacks. There are about 30 Million black

people in this country. How much would it cost to determine who

was elgible for reparations?

What is a black person? One who is more than 50% black?

How would you determine that? Some of the black people in this

country decended from black people that came from South Africa.

Don Mandry