The war on poverty was reparations. How’d that work out?
We've already paid at least $779 billion, most probably a low-end estimate, since it was published during the Obama administration. Even that low figure is $20,000 for every A-A man, woman and child in America, including the large percentage of those who were actually born in Africa and recently migrated, or who were never descended from slavery; and given that the War on Poverty took place over many years, the buying power of many of those dollars would have been much higher earlier in the program, when there actually were persons who grew up under segregation.
Nor do those figures account for the sacrifices made by universities and employers who, either voluntarily or due to coercive regulation, have applied Affirmative Action programs. Establishing and maintaining the programs cost billions, both administratively and in productivity costs, and so did the many, many lawsuits under those rulings.