please note this response comes from a American of African decentt:
NO, reparations should not be paid to any decendant of any slave based on at least 4 sound arguments:
1. Blacks (i.e., descendants of slaves) are better off in America than to have been left in Africa. Those in disagreement should be offered air fare to return.
2.black Americans, even those NOT of slave ancestry, have ejoyed over a half century of preferred treatment by law over Caucasians, most of whom have no slave ownership I their ancestry.
3. Countless numbers of blacks who have legally migrated from Africa(true African-Americans) have thrived, proving the belief that native born blacks are hampered by past slavery a moot point.
4. According to what they tell me, over 600,000 folks (most white) died to “end slavery”. I’d say that debt has been paid.
My family never owned slaves. One branch fought for this nation’s independence, while another branch were slaves themselves - they were Irish. It took 3 Irish to equal 1 black man.