Wyantry wrote:
I am in favor of reparations. No, don’t laugh, giggle or roll-the-eyes.
I would favor giving reparations to any surviving ex-slave alive before, say, 1900 or within twenty years of the signing of the emancipation proclamation!
Anyone else has had ample time and opportunity to get off the bottom-of-the-heap. Other ethnic groups have managed to do so, and ex-slaves and their descendants all over the country have done well in many cases.