Libertarian economist Walter Williams is absolutely right about the absurdity of the notion of state-mandated slave reparations.   Slavery in the States ended about one and a half centuries ago, so no living person is in any way culpable for the institution. But reparations, as the forced transfer of wealth from one group to another, imply just the opposite.

As individualists, we libertarians need to call the state out for its petty rate-baiting and groupthink. Instead of using issues of the past to foster a culture of collectivism, resentment and perpetual victimhood, the state ought to  abolish its own racist policies of the present.