Reparations are another civil war trigger.
I believe this whole charade is for two purposes: To drive blacks back onto the Dem plantation after they basically killed Hillary’s bid for the White House, and to move the goalposts so today’s absurd and blatantly illegal race-based preferences are left untouched. They hope they’ll appear reasonable by giving up on reparations, in return for preserving the status quo of free sh!t for certain preferred minorities.
It will probably work (at least the second part).