I think reparations should be paid to blacks here in America. We were forced over to America to live a miserable life. Even the simplest rights were taken, like learning how to read. Blacks in America invented so much, yet aren't even put in history books. A race of people which didn't have the privilege to know their own age or to have the least bit of a good education has invented the world's most needed and used things. Frederick Douglass who was born a slave was one of the first U.S. ambassadors. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was one of America's first black surgeons and he performed one of the first successful heart operations, yet died because he needed open heart surgery. …