[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reparations paid between 1861 and 1865. 700,000 dead and a total of approximately 1,500,000 total casualties fighting to decide if blacks were to be free men or slaves.

For every THREE slaves, one White man gave his life. For every FIVE slaves, loss of life, arms and legs, eyes, property, disease. Reparations were paid in full in the form of blood.

[Verginius Rufus]

The population of the US was 31 million in 1860, so the death toll in the Civil War represents about 2% of the entire population--but about 8% of the adult men of military age.

If reparations are for slavery, then they should make any black person who claims reparations prove their ancestry back to actual slaves, and require white people to submit their family trees so that only those who had slaveholding ancestors will be required to pay. Of course they will widen the criteria to include Jim Crow and any racial discrimination so that any black person will be eligible, even those who immigrated within the past few years.