“Isn’t it possible one ancestor was a slave and the other a slave owner?”
Given the DNA, it is certain that this is true in many instances.
If we are going to do reparations based on race though, I really must insist that no arbitrary cutoff date be in applied, or favoritism to any one group of perpetually aggrieved.
Violence is violence.
Theft is theft.
Murder is murder.
On a plantation, in any rustbelt city, in a riot or a convenience store. Scab picking can be done by all, but few are so foolish.
Anyway, the present deplorable condition of many blacks has far less to do with slavery than it has to do with the Great Society.
But yes, I agree with the "great society" being the major cause.