If slave descendants are compensated, why not compensate the heirs of the earliest cotton mill workers, 70 percent of whom died of
brown lung disease? And if slavery is to be the subject of compensation when practiced by dead white people, why passively stand by when the current Sudanese kidnap their black compatriots into servitude?
Some have been instrumental in passing legislation on such issues as redlining of neighborhoods, fair housing enforcement, tax reform, child support, migrant worker needs and treatment of
brown lung disease.