As far as I’ll ever go on slavery reparations is to agree that anyone who was legally owned as a slave in the U.S. should be entitled to reparations from the person who actually owned that slave, each individual case to be adjudicated in civil court. Those who were never themselves enslaved are entitled to nothing.
I will agree to pay reparations to anyone who can prove that he was ever my slave.
I will not pay reparations to anyone whose ancestors may have been one of my ancestor’s slaves over 150 years ago.