Reparations for something that happened over a hundred years ago is just plain wrong no matter how you look at it. This is just another way to divide the country.
Why should I, a descendant of German and Canadians living now in what was a territory back then, pay a person reparations that was never a slave?
It’s racism, pure and simple.
This notion is just as stupid as the Mexicans expecting Spain to apologize. My understanding of history is the Spanish did some of their slaughtering in the name of the Catholic Church. If that be true, then the Mexicans should be trying to get the Pope to apologize too, maybe fork over a little cash too.
I do not think the Spaniards went about killing the indigenous people “in the name of the Catholic Church”. That sounds like slander to me. Spain was looking for land, power and gold.
As for the Catholic Church, they made some blunders in the process of Christianizing the population, but they also inspired them to worship the true God, eliminated human sacrifice, etc. and educated them. Unfortunately, in their zealotry, many historical artifacts of the history of ancient peoples of America were destroyed.