Randall Robinson is the black American scold who wants our government to pay reparations to citizens of his race, to atone for the crime of having permitted the enslavement of those citizens' ancestors.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* Randall Robinson is the black American scold who wants our government to pay reparations to citizens of his race, to atone for the crime of having permitted the enslavement of those citizens' ancestors. Three weeks before the September 11 attacks, Robinson left the U.S. for good, moving to his wife's birthplace, the two-island Caribbean nationlet of St. Kitts and Nevis. Robinson is fulsome in praise of his new home. "[T]iny, modest-living St. Kitts ... is a healthier society" than the U.S., he declares in his new book, Quitting America. There are other views of that society, but we do not begrudge Mr. Robinson his new-found idyll--especially in view of his remarks about the nation he left behind. This is a hellhole of misery, privilege, and racist oppression, whose chief executive is a man ...