The rightness of overturning Jim Crow laws and segregation was apparent to most decent people, but since that time "civil rights" has morphed into an ugly parody of itself, rife with its own brand of bigotry and discrimination.
Those who go down this road are not going to like the end results at all.
Yes. Its very counter-productive to pursue reparations. Why destroy cooperation and goodwill which has been here in abundance in this country? Its time to stop this race-baiting in the name of reparations.