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All the arguments aside, what is the absolute, very best argument that one can make for reparations? I personally this the difficulties are insurmountable -- how to ID those whose anscestors enslaved and those whose ancestors were slaves, and only the guilty should pay if there's been a crime.

All that aside, what is the VERY BEST argument IN FAVOR of reparations? Is it what we have above from Jackson, that blacks have less education, more jail, more difficulties, and he sees that as a direct result of their former enslavement? Is that it?

More food for thought: 1) Are Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Berry Gordy, Michael and Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, Quincy Jones, Eddie Murphy...et al suppoded to receive reparations? 2) What about this growing class of bi-racial children born to white mothers (who pretend they're black) out of wedlock? Why should white women who have unmarried sex with black men benefit financially from the color of their bastards? 3) What exactly is "black"? How much African blood qualifies someone for reparations? How do they even know if their ancestors were free blacks or not? What about the descendants of black slave OWNERS? 4) What about the trillions of dollars the U.N. confiscates from our economy every year to send to African despotic leaders, who murder their own countrymen?

All the arguments aside, what is the absolute, very best argument that one can make for reparations? I personally this the difficulties are insurmountable -- how to ID those whose anscestors enslaved and those whose ancestors were slaves, and only the guilty should pay if there's been a crime.

I hate to bring up race, but since race seems to be the determining factor in who gets reparations payments, I guess it's fair enough to discuss race here. What's Jesse's family tree like?

Present day descendants of slaves are often also descendants of slave-holding whites.

Some descendants of slaves have more slave-holding ancestry than many whites.The descendants wouldn't even be alive if their black and their white ancestors hadn't 'met' in North America.
Will blacks with mixed slave/slave-holder ancestry get less money than blacks with 100% slave ancestry? Will they get more?

Like I said, I hate to ask, but Jesse DID brought up the topic of race.