Reparations will do nothing to heal the rift. If anything, it will make it worse as working whites have their hard-earned money taken away and give to a person across the street because they are black.
Nobody actually believes this will ever be paid; this is about moving the goalposts so the true goal (preserving racial preferences, despite the obvious legal problems with the inequality therein) is achieved.
I honestly believe that was one of Obama’s true missions (in fact, he did little else), and he was very successful in it. Throw the reparations BS out there, and suddenly giving free/unearned college degrees, jobs/promotions, government loans, etc. to blacks is the “centrist” position. They are just moving the goalposts...