T a-Nehisi Coates is a comic book author, with comic book solutions to grievous American problems. His most notorious comic book solution was an article in THE ATLANTIC, in which he espoused reparations to    solve the    on-going grievous problem of    Poverty among American Blacks. Coates’ reparations would be a monetary compensation for the American sin of Slavery. Mr. Coates' solution achieved instant credibility among Liberal  apparatchiks and  their  literati . Liberals do not see a corruption in Mr. Coates’ comic book solution; this Blogger does. Slavery was and is a sin; Coates wants to buy off the sin. Sins cannot be bought off; sins can be  expiated.   T he act of  expiation  is a way to atone for something you did that was wrong. Expiation cannot be done in coin but in blood. America has expiated its sin of slavery at Shiloh, the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, the Peach Orchard, the Wheat Field and the Riv...