And don't forget that slavery started in Africa. Stronger tribes raided and enslaved weaker tribes. Somewhere along the line, the smell of cash came wafting into their lnad and they started selling their slaves. It got to be a very lucrative and those tribes needed more merchandise until they themselves became slaves. Of course, that was a looooooong time before we got into the game.
If the blacks of today want reperations, let them go after the decendents of those original enslavers. Let Je$$e Skaedown and the good Rev Al go after them. Then come and see us. See how far they get.
Most of them were Arab Muslim slave raiders who then sold them to Europeans (as they had captured and sold Europeans to Middle Easterners only a century before). I don't think Rev Al has even the faintest chance of getting a dime out of the Arabs.