The actions of our white forefathers are damning. Individuals and groups of people were backed by federal institutions to turn human labour into a business where a disproportionately small group of people came out as winners. It is too late for us to fully right these wrongs and help the people personally affected find justice. However, there remains time enough to give assistance to the descendants of the African Americans who gave up their lives funding the creation of a corporate and industrial empire. The notion that African American lives, culture and human rights mean less than the average ‘White American’ is something that can at long last be banished from the American psyche and reputation. This can only happen if we take a stand and kick-start the process of repaying our debts, both fiscal and moral to the decedents of those that have America the greatest nation on earth.