[eclectic]

Can't we all just get along? Just surrender a small percentage of your hard-earned income to a bunch of swindlers. No big deal for you, but they will be happy!

[El Sordo]

Reparations wouldn't make them happy. They would just move on to the next cause and push for more reparations.

There could not be a single payment for reparations. It would more likely take the form of an entrenched entitlement, call it Black Welfare. And there would have to be continuous clamoring to have this expanded in order for the elite to keep the masses under their thumb.