Slavery reparations

[Michiko]

no [black person] has had to suffer through [slavery] in america. therefore no black person should get [reparations].

[Jason Yan]

A socio-political concept that involves taking resources from white people as payment for a crime they did not commit and giving these resources to black people who where not the victims of the crime. [Slavery reparations] involves a number of unique philosophical concepts that have no legal precedent. First, the premise that guilt is not only inherited by skin color but is collectively distributed - that is, all members of the white race should pay for what a very small proportion actively engaged in (the slave trade). Second, it employs the [novel concept] that the right to compensation is also inherited by skin color and collectively distributed - that is, all black people will get money, whether or not their ancestors were slaves. Third, it violates a concept within most legal systems called the [Grandfather clause], which basically states that one cannot be made into a criminal simply by changing the law and redefining legal behavior as criminal behavior.
Slavery reparations is a misguided attempt at alleviating white guilt and black frustration. It is misguided for many reasons, the first of which is that monetary payments cannot change the past, and will have only a marginal impact upon the future of blacks as a race. It will be a big insult for whites, however, who will be angry at having payment extorted for a crime they did not commit. Blacks who are angry will not be pacified by putting a price on the lives