he is an administrator for encobra, the national coalition of blacks for reperations in america. thanks so much for being with us, do you think the black americans should get reparations, and if so why? i certainly believe that blacks in this country. should get reparations and it's primary because of two reasons, one uh, there's never been justice and fairness, in any large measure, for african americans, people of africans in this countries, you know we came here as stolen kidnapps uh, people from the continent of africa to uh slave in the cotton fields and tobacco fields and rice fields uh in america and then later in uh some of the factories uh, during the industrial age, um, the tremendous amount of of crimes were committed against us during the period of enslavement, but then after the period of enslavement we had a brief period called reconstruction in this country where there was some simplence of fairness and justice justice uh then that was followed by uh another 80 plus years of terroristic apartite uh by white supremist organizations in this country that removed again