With brother Steve at Uxbridge memorial.

No " reparations " for black slavery ! What Martin Luther King wanted THE FAILURE TO DELIVER REPARATIONS All serious talk of " reparations " for black slavery is illiberal liberal drivel. Should money be extracted from the descendants of UNION families whose sons fought -many killed- in the Civil War ? There are two " ENGLEY " names inscribed on front of the Uxbridge , Mass. City Hall , veterans of the American Revolution and the Civil War to save the Union and end slavery . My grandfather, William Engley , as a retired Providence, R.I. police officer ( 1930 ), showed us old newspaper clippings about these family members. WE owe the black race now living in the United States NOTHING but what Martin Luther King asked for them : to be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin. Imagine some affluent black individual - like Oprah - being presented with a big happy face check because some distant relative of her family was a slave in the Old South ! Grandfather Engley is buried in that town of Uxbridge not far from that City Hall war memorial plaque .