J. Pharoah Doss: California reparations…remission or restitution?

Over the last decade, Americans have debated the necessity of a racial reckoning. This impulse led to puzzling attempts to make amends for the past.
When spiritual guru Marianne Williamson launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, it was revealed that she led an audience in an apologetic prayer from White Americans to African Americans during a 2018 speaking tour. Williamson had the Whites plead for forgiveness for slavery, lynching, White supremacist laws, voting