“I’m 100% for this. Absolutely. Reparations”
Why? Name one person alive today that was hurt by slavery.
I think some families (a relative few) benefitted from owning slaves, so therefor it seems self-evident that if those families are still wealthy then their current wealth could be considered ill-gotten gains just as if they had robbed a bank or something like that. So it would follow that their victims (their particular slaves and the descendents of those slaves) have been financially harmed. So, reparations from victimizers to victims makes sense to me. I utterly reject all other pigmentation-based reparations, though. So to answer your direct question directly, the direct descendents of slaves whose wealth and labor were expropriated are today still being hurt because they should’ve “started with more” in life, if you will. I can only imagine this would be a relative few, too. I think this would right an historical wrong and put and end to a lot of discussion about “justice” and “white privilige” and so forth (wishful thinking?? Probably). Just my thoughts. Thank you for the question.