Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

[Prism]

161. I'd like a Cabinet level position/department about Racial Inequality

I know it'll never happen in my lifetime, but I think dedicating an entire department of government to racial inequality, fully funding it with billions of dollars, with a mission of repairing and remedying racial inequities in education, employment, infrastructure, banking, and criminal justice, is what the country needs to both reconcile its past and move forward as a whole, healed unit.

I know we have various lesser departments and programs that deal with these topics, but an overarching sustained effort, like a mini New Deal, is what is required to really dig deep and start making significant progress that is a century and a half overdue.

Cash reparations are a band-aid. The institutions of this country need major surgery.

But I'm not super optimistic of this prospect. While people like to say, "White people are unlikely to go for this any time soon!" - and that is true - I see no reason why any other racial groups will similarly come on board in any quicker a fashion. Demographically, America isn't becoming more African American over time. Whites as a percentage of population are decreasing due to immigration from Latino and Asian countries (Latino and Asian populations are expected to triple in the next 30 years).

And I feel like those immigrants and their successive generations will feel even less responsibility for America's tainted past than whites currently do. Hell, just look how many white people react. "My Irish ancestors came over in 19xx! Why should I feel guilty about slavery?!"

And that's from people whose families lived through and benefitted from the unequal 20th Century systems. Will 21 century immigrants and their children feel much different about it?