The Editor New York Times Dear Sir Daily we see vociferous representatives claiming that people who happen to be of a certain colour should pay reparations for slavery to people of a different colour. That is, there are activists (many of whom are quite well-fed) who want money without working for it.  To be paid by people who offended no one, yet who must work while the products of their labour go to the first group. In the words of Dinesh D'Souza, you work, I eat. It seems