Reparations should be paid to every former slave. Not their descendants. Practically everyone is descended from an enslaved or otherwise oppressed people if you go back far enough.
Do you suppose my peeps could hit up the Egyptians?
I always like to point out, if not for slavery, most African Americans would not even exist. If you could go back in time, and prevent the pairing of say your great, great, great grandmother to your great, great,great grandfather, it changes every subsequent generation going forward. The forced pairings, the forced relocations changed everything. It’s a harsh and evil way to come into existence, but all of us owe our very existence to the crimes of history. War, slavery, oppression, rape, murder...we are all shaped by them. Every one of us. Good luck sorting out the reparations for all of that.