- Charla Strong:  "How is welfare reparations for blacks when there are more whites than blacks on welfare?  How is affirmative action reparations when white women have benefited most from it?"

- Moderator Jason McCabe asks Mr. Horowitz to define the term "racism" as he uses it.
  Ngozi Harris:  "So are you saying that racism does not exist right now?  That African-Americans are still not dealing with the consequences of slavery?  Do you deny racial profiling?  Do you deny the glass ceiling?  Do you deny all of the problems facing us?"

- Richard Kraus:  "To what degree was the anti-reparations piece deliberately provocative so as to expose the 'racial McCarthyism' of which you complain?"

- Claude Fethiere:  "Although the people directly responsible for slavery are dead, the by-products of slavery like institutional racism and prejudice are very much alive.  What should be done for African-Americans who are still victims of racism?"
 

The following are all additional questions received.  They have been transcribed exactly as written, to the best of our ability:

- Aaron Baum:  "You have not displayed empathy for certain audience members, perhaps because of their misunderstanding of your ideas on the topic at hand.  Do your conclusions grant you this right? In discussing an issue as emotionally riveting as slavery is, why did you not begin your lecture with a note of solemnity, in response to the severity of the suffering that has occurred in the past, and that still remains in retrospect today?"

- Anonymous:  "You are frequently attacked by the left. I would like to challenge you from the right.  You have continuously supported homosexual rights, for marriage, adoption, etc.  Why do you think individuals cannot be discriminated for the moral choices that people make?  Also, what other forms of murder, like abortion, do you condone?

- Phil Claxton IV:  "Why are you spending time attacking the left, environmentalists, and such, instead of explaining to us in greater detail why reparations are a bad idea?  Why are you making fun of people?  Why did you use 'myself' in a sentence without having referred to yourself previously?  That is a grammatical error.  Please explain."

- Tracy Davis:  "A question for the audience: How many protesters have ever read the full text article?!?"

- Your Conscience:  "Are you haunted by the knowledge of your utter mediocrity?  Is this why you're such an ignorant fascist?"

- LK:  "What is your definition of racism and how can blacks and other people of color be racist?"

- Anonymous:  "Do you believe that wealth in American is generational?"

- Ngozi Harris:  "I, only, have one question for you.  Not once during your entire speech did I hear you say that slavery was wrong.  So, is it my understanding that you agree with slavery?  You've seemed to have found every justification for it."

- Anonymous:  "What do you, as an intellectual, hope to accomplish by traveling across the country and alienating all but those who already agree with you?"

- Sasha Talcott:  "What is your reaction to the Daily Northwestern finally running the reparations ad today?"

- Nirav D. Shah, Grad student MD, JD:  "Sir, have you considered that the government enjoys sovereign immunity from any policy decision, ex ante or ex post?  Another point to add to the Top 10."

- Raphael:  "Mr. Horowitz, wouldn't all U.S. citizens by paying for reparations, including black people?  Thus, if black people would be paying also, how would they be excluded from U.S. culture?  It would appear that you are excluding black people."

- William Cottrell:  "Do you plan for your talks to go this way?"

- Anonymous:  "How has welfare and affirmative action, as you claim, been a form of reparations for black people when white women largely have benefitted from both?"

- Raphael B. Leib:  "The word 'racist' has been thrown around by both sides of this debate.  Please define 'racism' as you use it."

- Ira Dounn:  "If Republicans controlled inner city education, how would you improve its current state (of poverty)?  How would you educate them effectively?"

- Beaker & Co:  "Meee Meee Meee Meee Meee!!  Doing an excellent job, Jason!  And one awesome tie!!"

- Elvia:  "1) Do you agree that social institutions should be setup to help develop and advance the life of people who are socially, economically disadvantaged?  2) Why do you think that a huge portion of the African American population (relative to all America, not the world) are impoverished?  3) Why do you blindly attack all leftists? Why do you insult all of us?  4) I am an Atheist hence there will be no kneeling.  Zora Hurston is a great writer, then she must be right?  And I am the stupid one?"

- Anonymous:  "If white Anglo-Saxons created the anti-slavery movement, who was Toussaint L'Overture?"

- Andrea Barley:  "You said that reparations were a bad idea, but you never said exactly why.  Could you support your argument? (without insult)."

- J. Childs:  "If reparations came in another form besides money paid to Rev. Jackson etc. such as education dollars and African history for all would it be a better approach?  Politics and economics are designed to oppress minorities.  True or false.  Why?  How is your ideology and propaganda different and less volatile then the leftist ideology?"

- Ian Marlier, U of C Free Press:  "Do you have a reply to people who say that requiring questions to be written is something of censorship in and of itself?  That it is, itself, a denial of academic freedom and intellectual honesty?  If many black people support you, why are there so few blacks cheering?  If it's about race war, why are there white people protesting too?"

- Anonymous:  "Why do you insist on provoking people?"

- Raphael B. Leib:  "As a descendent of people who were themselves forcibly removed from their homeland and cast into slavery, who have been discriminated against, vilified and murdered throughout the world, and for whom it has taken thousands of years to recover dignity and self-determination, how can you you, a Jew, in good conscience deny those people with whom you share a common history the right to recover those privileges you yourself enjoy and take for granted?"

- Henry Chi:  "Thank you for having the courage to come here and express your views.  My question is this, what do you think can be done by students to help combat this growing trend on college campuses toward intellectual intolerance and intimidation?"

- Anonymous:  "You dismiss slavery as something that happened many years ago, isn't the disproportionate imprisonment of African American men and women w/ the backing of the 13th amendment that excludes slavery except when a crime is committed, a present form of slavery?"

- Anonymous:  "As you've said, education is the only way for poor inner city children to have a shot at the American dream. How would you propose the public school system be reformed, given that education is a public good?"

- Ben Buckley:  "Please explain to us what justification you have for saying that the state does not owe something to the victims of systemic and institutional racism in the face of phenomena like urban gentrification and racial profiling."

- Anonymous:  "All of the Democrats in office have been elected by the people.  So what do you suggest, that we unjustly institute non-Democrats into office?"

- Ngozi Harris:  "Why is it that the scholars that disagree with you are in afraid?  Don't they just disagree with you?  And agree with the facts, that slavery was wrong and we are still suffering from the problems of slavery?"

- Anonymous:  "If you don't want to aggravate racial tensions, why are you attacking the Left instead of appealing to it?"

- John Lomperis:  "1) How do you handle the concerns that your being involved in controversial race issues might negatively affect your Black grandchildren?  2) How can Black people here not hate you without having their "race loyalty" questioned?  3) Why did your ad have to be so in-your-face?  Why didn't you first let people know you care?"

- Danielle Adler:  "1) Have you heard of the triangular slave trade?  2) What do you think of the principle of social and economic rights?  3) Would you have liked to be a slave yourself?  4) If everybody were for slavery, why did you have to fight against slavery, then segregation?  5) Do you feel persecuted?  6) Do you think that slavery was a necessary step to enlightening Blacks, who were, of course, inferior?  7) Have you ever [been] to 47th Street in Chicago?"

- Anonymous:  "You said that 'every black person owes a debt to Lincoln,' and yet earlier in your speech your main point against slave reparations was that it is based upon skin color, not descendants of slaves.  Explain this contradiction."

- Elvia:  "Is there a place where we 'stupid infantile leftists' can write counter-arguments to your 'ideas'?  Have you read any of the counter-arguments that expose your misinformation?"

- Ngozi Harris:  "Answer the damn questions.  Why won't you answer the questions presented?"

- Jamilica Burke:  "Since slavery was so long ago and Americans should not be held accountable to pay reparations, then what about the fact that after slaves were freed did they pay hates(?) for over a hundred years and did not reap the benefits of it?  Our African-Americans owed a debt for that?"

- Matthew Tievsky:  "How can Mr. Horowitz protest reparations on the grounds that the innocent should not have to pay for others' crimes, yet support government-paid reparations for the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, which very few Americans were responsible for?"

- Nirav D. Shah, Grad student, MD, JD:  "You claim to have been 'censored' by the papers that did not print the ad.  Yet censorship applies only to non-commodity transactions - a proviso your ad did not fit.  There is no constitutional right to have ads printed.  Just as I have no right to have my op-ed pieces printed in the NY Times, you have no such corresponding right to have your ad published.  Your thoughts?"

- Adam Peiper:  "What brought you from the Left to the Right?  And what advice can you give to young conservatives?"

- Ariella Rotramel:  How can you speak as a Jew when you are funded by the conservative right that wishes to oppress Jews, and is therefore not supported by Jews in elections?  Do you enjoy being a token Jew in order to be paid to spread their views?  Was your sudden change in flattering the University of Chicago for its 'free' environment a result of your inability to find a room of people who silently agree with you, or have you always felt that the University provided a 'non-education'?"

- Jeff:  "What the hell is going on in there?"

- Anonymous:  "Why do you make the argument on reparations with the basis of whether every white person has benefited from slavery, when in actuality it was the institutionalization and preservation of slavery by the American government that is the basis for the argument of reparations?"

- Vince:  "A bright friend of mine claims that the modern ghetto is simply a new gulag, and that until we give all people equal or better state or federal funded education, it will be that way.  Your thoughts?"

- Anonymous:  "How can we explain that African-Americans today, usually live at a level far below that of average whites?  So does it matter that Africans are worse off than African-Americans?  What can we do about inequality now?"

- Anonymous:  "Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation was only given to slaves who were on Confederate plantations?  Thus, slavery would have still existed today if the confederates had not seceded the Union.  So the Civil War was not over slavery but saving the Union.  So many men died to save the Union, not free slaves.  My question to you is how much historical data/evidence did you use to back up your reasons?  Most of your reasons appear to be opinion by no fact.  If you read the 'shit' you wrote you will see that it is just a lot of mindless, opinioned comments."

- Ben Buckley:  "What do you propose to correct the massive gap in wealth between the mass of the white community and the black community?  Or do you think urban poverty and ghettos are a good thing?"