However, it has been even 50 years since that time. Not even the boomers are responsible for that. The boomers are getting ready to retire as well. Black people own more homes than ever before and have had a greater leg up than poor white people as for as federal programs to assist them in equalizing and in part dominating the playing field. Especially in government and the entertainment fields.

So fine take your reparation, but minus all the federal perks past and present once provided. No more Affirmative Action or money for under performing schools, and college grants. You compete straight up the same as everyone else.

But be honest. Would that really stop the complaining about ancestors being slave or being discriminated against in the past... probably not. Why not go after the Turkish government and the Muslims too. It was the Ottoman Empire that caused and profited off your slavery the most. the slave trade to to the middle east was five time larger. All those slaves were killed though, no descendant.

After all too, slavery got started in America because of the Trukish and African Barbary Pirates Islamic tradition mis-using indentured servants clauses and benefits. I mean really were do you stop and how can it be sorted out when records are not intact. You can't just say you have dark skin therefor you get reparations. That would be unfair and racist in itself.

Going to have to do a DNA map of all people in America to figure it out down to the generation most effected. I guess it would mean any American found to have just a 16th of Native American blood will have native American benefits too, because a lot of those records where destroyed and missing.

I think it is simplest to leave things as they are, and yes, work harder and pick yourself up. Wealth being past on only affects the first three and at most five generations anyways. It has been well over five generations since slave times.