Your response is a good one. “What if I am half black? Or 1/8th black. Should we dig up the guides from those folks back in the 30’s who established your “quality of life” based on “how Jewish” people were?”
I would only add that Blacks who owned Black slaves divvy up at a minimum half the amount to be paid out.
There seems to be a presumption that all black people are descended from slaves.
A few million immigrants from sub Saharan Africa have come to America in recent decades. Clearly none of them are descended from slavery in America.
I don’t have numbers in front of me, but there were significant communities of free blacks in America before the civil war. If we want to say any black people who have ancestry in this country, not recent immigrants, that would not be correct because some are descended from free blacks.