Reparation: that is, doing something for the victim or community to make up for the harm caused.
It might be that, in addition to apologizing, repenting, and making reparations, you ought to do something further to show that you are quite serious about your apology and repentance.
But if anyone has become rich by short-changing their own employees, by not paying decent wages or creating monopolies that drove other competitors out of business, then I think that their "charities" perhaps need to be called something else -- perhaps "reparations" or "restitution".
Though I staunchly believe in the need for an apology from Turkey and proper reparations, the Armenian Genocide is not something that keeps me up at night.
Like King and Weatherspoon, Clyde Ross, who figured prominently in Coates' story, said he thinks reparations should take the form of something community-based for the younger generation -- but not cash.
But he has another issue in his repertoire that is almost guaranteed to mobilise blacks and infuriate whites: reparations for slavery.Mr Sharpton also has something else on his side: the media's voracious desire for controversy.
Iraq's economic options would remain few and narrow without forgiveness of debt, a reduction in reparations from the previous Persian Gulf war or something akin to a Marshall plan.
Due to the emotional importance attached to the product, the challenge was to ascertain that the reparation does not transform the chair into something unfamiliar.
He doesn't say, 'O.K., slavery was bad, therefore people are owed something.' This is not a reparations speech.
Turns out it was those pesky war reparations that caused government deficit spending to soar to something like 50% of GDP annually, with most of that whopping deficit spending used to sell the German currency and buy foreign currency to pay their war reparations.
