Talk to me when you've lost a job to someone in order to fulfill a quota (even though you're more qualified)
a supporter of affirmative action might say in response: have you ever lost a job because someone did not like your skin color?
I gone back and forth on this issue. Both sides have good points. I am not sure which is right.
1. The people who want them were never slaves to begin with.
no, but the slave themselves never got paid and we can still pay their living relatives
it would be akin to paying money to the slaves estates and then the relatives get the money via inheritence.
2. The people who are supposed to pay them never owned slaves.
yes but an entity that is responsible for slavery is still around: The U.S. Government. It would not be individual people paying the reparations, but the entire country as whole.
Finally remember, had reparations been paid out when they should have been(when the slaves and slave owners were still alive), a lot of white people would have alot less money because their slave owning forefathers would have had alot less of it to pass on.