Could the Good Negro Colin Powell Pull off Reverse Reparations?

The Author chooses Colin Powell as a central figure in this book from his humble beginnings in Harlem to Vietnam. Then upon his return after his second tour of duty in 1968, he finds the US a little bit adrift, i.e., East-West tension, Cuba, the Sputnik and the erruption of racial disturbances in the US. However, Powell excels during this hour of darkness, i.e., he works under Frank Carlucci, Dick Cheney, George Bush Sr., and Westmorland, the overall US General in Vietnam...
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The Author chooses Colin Powell as a central figure in this book from his humble beginnings in Harlem to Vietnam. Then upon his return after his second tour of duty in 1968, he finds the US a little bit adrift, i.e., East-West tension, Cuba, the Sputnik and the erruption of racial disturbances in the US.

However, Powell excels during this hour of darkness, i.e., he works under Frank Carlucci, Dick Cheney, George Bush Sr., and Westmorland, the overall US General in Vietnam and Donald Rumsfeld.

At old age looking back, Powell could see the great progress this nation has made in Science and Technology, sending man to the moon and back, and the final integration of the armed forces that led to building 117 military bases intended to ward off the Communists. Powell's progress in the Middle East was mixed prior to his death in 2021. And at his death this country had elected its first Black President. This at least shows despite all its racial problems and complexities, not everything in America is wrong.

Also at the end, no progress has been made to compensate the American Negro for his 200 years of unpaid labor. "American Negro" strictly applies to Blacks enslaved from Columbus' time to Lincoln. Therefore, this is the only group entitled to restitution from the US. All other Blacks outside this group are not entitled to any special cash payout. The Author also discusses "Reverse Reparations" and "Reverse Engineering". These are tools the US has employed without even knowing it under various names in the past to resolve this nation's transportation problem. For example, Amtrak used to consist of single lines of track, but a government study recommended combining about 14 tracks. And after hiring staff and maintaining the tracks, Amtrak became profitable. The same thing applies to the nation's highway transportation system which Eisenhower began in the 1950s. It connected every part of the country from East to West and North to South.

So the problems we have today like Homelessness and why Black businesses on Main Street haven't gone anywhere and our dysfunctional judicial system that has caused mass incarceration of Blacks could all be resolved within the concepts of "Reverse Reparations" and "Reverse Engineering".