[B Knotts]

What is wrong with reparations, per se? Like I said, my objection is only to sending out checks. Weren't black families financially harmed by their ancestors being owned by other people?

[sinkspur]

Weren't black families financially harmed by their ancestors being owned by other people?

Yes. And those who were harmed are all dead.

Reparations to Holocaust victims were limited to the actual victims, not to generations yet-to-come.

Reparations, per se, are wrong. Blacks alive today have suffered not one bit from slavery. If you buy that argument, you've bought Jesse Jackson's argument for reparations.

[Don Joe]

Weren't black families financially harmed by their ancestors being owned by other people?

So in other words, if I can prove that my great-great-great-great-grandfather took an arrow in the back, I'll be "entitled" to free gambling at the Indian casinos?