People in Columbus keep saying reparations will never happen, meanwhile Fulton County in metro Atlanta already formed a task force, documented the harm, and attached real numbers to what was stolen. They studied slavery, land loss, discriminatory taxation, and racial extraction, with estimates ranging from about $375 million in stolen labor to roughly $900 billion in broader unredressed losses in today’s dollars. So this is not just talk anymore. This is research, evidence, and a government body moving toward recommendations. Which means every time somebody says reparations are impossible, they either have not done the research or they are too comfortable repeating the same hopeless mindset that keeps Black people from pushing anything forward. And y’all are cool with that?