The vast majority of white people in the United States never had any connection with slavery.
Italians and Jews only arrived in large numbers about 40 years after all slaves were freed.
For every Irish immigrant that owned a slave, probably about twenty died trying to free the slaves.
For every German immigrant that owned a slave, probably about one hundred died trying to free the slaves.
I was the first of my family to go south of the Mason-Dixon line, in 1975.
My French-Canadian great-grandparents immigrated to New England in the early 1900s to work in the textile mills. Why should their descendants be expected to pay reparations?