15th amendment was in 1870
aint no one left alive that has a legitimate claim against the US gov't.

I'm not saying there weren't really, really ... awfully, terribly, horribly... bad things done to black people by the US gov't and for that to simply be ignored is not a very adult way of dealing with things when you screw up... but here we are.

Everyone who's responsible for this shit sandwich is dead. There's no one left to punish for the crap world they left us.
Just... ya know... try to leave a less shit world for the next generation, alright?

Reparations isn't a step toward a better world. It's a lost quest for justice that cannot be served, because the guilty are already dead.