Wallo suggests that if reparations were distributed, the funds should be invested into the community, specifically through housing and education.

“I'm an investor I love it and I'm definitely putting some in our communities I think we should all make a silent black people put some put into the community with 350 well I mean I would like to like do some type of thing with affordable housing”

Gillie argues that Black Americans are owed reparations because other groups have received them in the past.

“my grandmom could have been a wet nurse Google dad we had a rough [ __ ] ride and everybody got their reparations but us they paid the Japanese they paid the Jews where's our [ __ ] money”

Government-mandated reparations are a performative and unfeasible idea that will never be enacted and only serve to stoke racial conflict.

“They know that this resolution has no chance of passing in either chamber of Congress, much less being signed into law. They know this is purely performative. It's a purely performative piece of legislation that's intended to stoke racial conflict and enrage as many people as possible”

Ta-Nehisi Coates asserts that he once mistakenly drew conclusions about complex geopolitical issues in his writing due to a lack of sufficient personal curiosity.

“I did something that I advise you know my writing students to never do in the message and that is you know you draw conclusions about something that you have not been sufficiently curious about”

A reparations program must include direct payments to eligible individuals to successfully eliminate the racial wealth gap.

“if you're going to the racial wealth differential you have to do it by by taking the precise step of providing direct payments to the individuals who are eligible if you go the indirect route you will have a dilution of the delivery of the resources to the individuals who deserve them or merit them”