It's rare I outright implore people to read an article

[KitSileya]

56. If they were talking about a painting, would you have the same opinion?

Say, a Monet that was stolen from a Jewish family during WWII, and found its way to the US by way of an American GI? Would you accept that it should be taken from the descendants of that soldier and given back to the descendants of the Jewish family?

How about land? Like in 1StrongBlackMan's case, where the land was taken from his family, and because they were black, they had no legal redress?

The money for reparations would come from the government, not from individuals, so no white families would be tossed out of their homes in the middle of the night to give those homes to black families. For every dollar of net worth of white persons in the US, African Americans have a nickel. The average net worth of African Americans, including retirement savings, is $200. This is the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, the housing bubble. We're not talking 150 years ago. It may have started 150 years ago (more like 500 years ago,) but it continues to the present day. Demanding that the government do something to mitigate this injustice seems eminently fair to me, even if we're not talking about objects other than Benjamin Franklins.