As we look at national and world problems, social and political scientists are challenged to devise solutions, provide answers, and prescribe cures to what appears to be an ailing social organism. Can we observe, analyze, and critically determine just solutions to unjust situations? What, if any, is or rather should be our response? Is our tasks merely to analyze, problem identify, and thus complete our tasks? Or more succinctly is there an urgent need for a public social science which is engaged, reflective, and proscriptive in its approach? This article, using the case for reparations, attempts to address these questions and suggests that we can do this and more. An argument is made that a social justice form of reparations can serve to repair the damage(s) caused by centuries of hyper-exploitation, oppression, and obfuscation. It concludes with the observation that anything short of full reparations, for blacks as well as for whites, will only continue the insanity of the past, failed policies of social minimalism, racial reductionism, and political short sightedness.