So when only 1.8% of Southern whites owned slaves we should blame the 98.2% who did not? Where as 28% of free Blacks owned slaves. Yes it comes into play and a majority of those black slave owners supported the Confederacy.Wasn't slavery abolished in the North at that time?
Now and try point to a counterpart that was in the company of Jefferson Davis.
Now back to reparations. If I honestly thought that throwing money at select individuals based on race could solve even a fraction of the problems, I'd write a check for $10k right now.
But it won't, so I won't; nor will I support the US govt. doing it.
All this talk about slave owning blacks, and blacks enslaving blacks, is a distraction and appears petty and tone deaf.
Let's get to the root of black slavery. Africans sold Africans to white slave traders. That's the root cause.