NATION’S WEALTHIEST BLACK MAN SAYS CORPORATE AMERICA SHOULD CONSIDER SLAVERY REPARATIONS. Robert Smith, who made headlines last year when he shocked the graduating class of the historically Black Morehouse College with news that he was paying off their student debts, opened up about the private sector’s role in racial justice in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday. Smith suggested corporations can use their “capital to repair the communities that they are directly associated with in the industries in which they cover.”