If Obama is really going to make this an issue in 2016, the point will be to whip up emotions among African American voters so they will be motivated to vote for the Democrats. Actually getting the money is out of the question. Even the Radical Republicans when they had a veto-proof majority when Andrew Johnson was President did not try to implement the “forty acres and a mule” idea, and any Congress with a Republican majority, even with milquetoast leadership as we have now, is not going to vote to fund reparations.
I’m unconvinced that today’s Republican leadership (wink wink), would stand up to him on a strictly racial matter.
Your logic isn’t flawed, I just don’t think the Republicans would deny Blacks this. They’d be wetting themselves.