Somebody stole some peoples' freedom; someone captured free people and made them into slaves. (I'll get to that "someone" later).
Down the line, others benefited from this theft by buying those slaves, firsthand or secondhand or thirdhand....
Further down the line, anyone who ever received any money from anyone who received any money from anyone who ..... received any money from a slave-holder or ex-slave-holder or descendant of an ex-slave-holder, can be deemed to be a beneficiary of slavery.
"King Cotton" of the antebellum era generated enormous profits using the stolen labor of slaves. Where did all those dollars go? They didn't disappear. They were recirculated into the economy of the US and with every nation the US South traded with. This "tainted money" is still with us today. Every US citizen of every race has "blood dollars" in their savings or invested in their possessions.
The US Government is by far the guiltiest beneficiary of slavery, by dint of the fact that over generations, they have taken trillions of dollars in taxes out of the pockets of descendants of slave-owners, and still do.
OK, let's pause for a moment.
Obviously, following this road of logic that the Race Baiters have charted, will lead to nowhere.
Therefore the only logic that really makes any sense is to place the burden of reparations completely on the people who originally changed free people into slaves (and the thieves' descendants).
The African Gold Coast nation of Benin, which was formerly called the Kingdom of Dahomey from 1600 to 1900, did by far the vast majority of the converting of free Africans into enslaved Africans. They used a good portion of their income from selling slaves, to buy advanced armaments to keep their armies stronger than their preyed-upon neighbors.
Thus, the nation of Benin today owes the lion's share of reparations to American descendants of slaves. Given Benin's current & projected GDP, I am proposing an easy-payment plan by which they should be able to pay off their debt in just 1.6348 billion years.
The US Government is by far the guiltiest beneficiary of slavery, by dint of the fact that over generations, they have taken trillions of dollars in taxes out of the pockets of descendants of slave-owners, and still do.
OK, let's pause for a moment.
Obviously, following this road of logic that the Race Baiters have charted, will lead to nowhere.
Actually it leads to the underlying assumption of ‘reparations’ whitey is guilty, doesn't matter if you are an FFV or came here from Germany in 1960. What you well describe is a major part of what is described as ‘white privilege’. This is a powerful, toxic, and destructive theory and we all we hear more and more about it.