Is a controversial opinion, but if anyone deserved reparations, it was the slave owners. Government has to pay you for land when they take it, why not your other property? It was legal when they owned them, taking their property away without compensation is ex post facto punishment.

Is a controversial opinion, but if anyone deserved reparations, it was the slave owners. Government has to pay you for land when they take it, why not your other property? It was legal when they owned them, taking their property away is ex post facto punishment.