Reparations for Slavery?

John Griswold
The Shadow
Published in
8 min readJan 23, 2021

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Photo by Deann DaSilva on Unsplash

How about reparations for the 20th century?

I’ve been doing my pandemic house cleaning lately and I stop every so often to peruse an artifact dug up from the rubble; a week ago it was my Mom’s 1947 UCLA year book. I flipped to the index listing the pages where the undergrads could be seen, and riffling through to find her Freshman Class Vice President pic I became aware of the sea of white…

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John Griswold
The Shadow

Master carpenter, watercolor artist and beat up old jock…owned by Black Lab Bo who considers two tennis balls a minimum mouthful