The apology and reparations were made from 1861 to 1865 with about 600,000 dead Americans, most of them white.
Then we hear the argument that whites just generally start off with a lot of inherited wealth, especially because more whites than blacks own their own homes. From my own experience and that of most of my friends, I submit that’s primarily because of hard work and thrift. I was busy saving money from my first job on. After about five years in the labor market I was able to afford my first home. Then the money built up through thrift and investment and I was able to afford the present house. Only a miniscule amount came from my parents or other relatives. A good look at most other white and Oriental homeowners will show the same thing. Hard work and thrift, available to anybody, will pretty much accomplish the same for anybody.
I just paid off my 30 year mortgage at 16 years, thanks to President Trump’s new tax cuts.
I grew up, poor as poor could possibly be in RURAL MISSISSIPPI.
Nobody ever gave me a damn thing.....................
My parents were po' folks from Alabama. Neither of them had more than about a Junior High education. My mother literally had to quit school and pick cotton. All during my childhood, our family (my parents and my 2 sisters and me) frequently had to move because we would get evicted from one house or another. We almost never had hot water or heat because my parents could not afford to pay the gas bill. We eventually fled to Texas to escape garnishment of my dad's wages.
Eventually, everything evened out, and my dad got a job at which he worked for decades. The only "privilege" we ever had was that we all had a work ethic, and it was considered shameful to take money from the government. I became the first emember of my family to attend college.