Sparks: Reform would deny visas over calls for slavery reparations

Whether they grant you a visa is not your concern; your demand for justice, however, is entirely within your power.

They build a new fence, and we find a new path through the swamp.

A man who denies the debt while still living in the house it built is not a statesman but a squatter.

This bureaucratic decree only reveals the state's true function as the armed guardian of property relations.

The same hand that drafted the bill of particulars against a king now drafts new bills to silence the bill-collectors.

You cannot claim the right to revolution for yourself while denying the right of petition to those you wronged.

Simplify: a man who fears your words more than his own history has already confessed.

These same hands that picked the cotton that built the wealth now are deemed unfit to knock on the door for payment.

A prince who outlaws the mention of his debt mistakes the silencing of creditors for the settling of accounts.

Wager then: is it safer to risk hearing an uncomfortable truth or to live in a mansion built on a lie that will outlast you?

Count the names, the dates, the sums owed, and you will find this policy is not about borders but about ledgers.

Denying a people the right to ask for redress is the same logic that denies a woman the right to an education - a forced ignorance designed to perpetuate a power imbalance.

It is curious how a nation so fond of collecting interest on its loans becomes suddenly deaf to the concept when the ledger is turned.

The invisible hand of the market becomes a very visible fist when protecting the ill-gotten gains of the masters from the claims of the enslaved.

This new rule illustrates political economy perfectly: capital will always seek to legislate away its moral liabilities to protect its material assets.