You've removed all doubt in my mind, you are oblivious to reality. Debt overdue??? How can I owe for a crime I didn't commit? How can someone be owed for an injustice that was committed to a distant relative? How much is enough?
Every racial group has been disadvantaged at one point or another, so what?
If you're feeling guilty as a Democrat for slavery ( which maybe you should) donate your property to a minority organization. The first Republican president freed the slaves and conservatives seek equality for all to this day. The segregationist clowns are democrats, always have been. So maybe I can understand your guilt. As soon as anyone of any color supports different or special treatment based on race, they're racist by definition. Hence , supporting reparations is racist. I don't expect you to understand, it's obvious you're world view is warped and your head is full of poison. Enjoy your life, if possible- or find more things to complain about.
Pay close attention to my post, not what you imagined I posted. I specifically referred to the fact that one particular group was systematically disadvantaged economically for more than 100 years,
after the Civil War, without any economic recompense. It is a simple economic fact that the number one predictor of the financial success of an individual is the economic position of their parents. If you prevent their parents from acquiring a middle-class position, you are preventing them from becoming middle-class (statistically).
More than any other group, blacks were prevented from acquiring property, jobs, higher educations, and political positions. All of those acts,
made by governments specifically, had long-term economic ramifications. For example, the State of Georgia went out of its way to prevent blacks from acquiring education at the state universities. Since higher education is a major factor in economic success, that law prevented economic advancement for blacks. Absolutely no question about it. That makes the State of Georgia
directly responsible for a significant element of economic disparity in its citizens. This is not some distant set of events by an ancient empire - many of the victims of Georgia's actions are still alive today, and would be more economically successful had not Georgia committed those acts of economic oppression.
Yes, it would be nice if we could ignore race, but that fact is, much or the US didn't, which directly led to the continued economic disadvantage of American blacks. And
now, when blacks have more economic and political power, you hear people suddenly saying how we should ignore race.
How convenient!
People complain about how this might affect their taxes. Spare me. We paid 2 trillion dollars for a failed war in Iraq. That is literally enough for half a million dollars for every single African American in the USA. And no one is talking about simply cutting big checks - every proposal relates to education and business or home investments.
I hear you say that you are being punished for something you did not do. Hardly, but they actually were, far more than you could every be. We can mitigate the moral debt of 100 years and we should. We have a debt, and we should discharge that debt, as we would with any other that the country acquires.