saw “12 years a slave.” questions that haunt me: how does one even start to make reparations for slavery? how does one come to grips with the magnitude of its depravity? how does one recover from it? how can one ever move beyond it? when we say that harriet tubman, sojourner truth and frederick douglass were “born slaves” and went on to become abolitionists and humanitarians do we truly understand the staggering immensity of what that means? speechless.