South Carolina taxpayers paid for seven whites-only colleges. South Carolina taxpayers paid for zero Black colleges. (South Carolina State College was a land-grant college, which meant it was founded with federal money after the Civil War.) The majority of South Carolina taxpayers were Black. (According to U.S. census workers, most of the school-age population, taxpayers, and wage earners in the Palmetto State were Black.) Every Black person in South Carolina was being robbed, and every white person in South Carolina benefited from it.
Reparations. Period.
