Reparation?? Who pays who? No slave is alive. No slave owner is alive. So who pays who? Are we making the sons pay for the parents "crimes". Are we putting a killers son on death row, for his fathers killings, just because we could not convict the father before he died?  Who gets paid? All blacks that were in this country before, go ahead and pick a date! What about blacks that came at their own doing? How do you find out who is related to slaves? What about blacks that moved here from Brazil and their parents were slaves of Portuguese slave owners. American should not have to pay for this. What about "slaves" that sold themselves at the slave market because they expected a better life in the new world? What about black slave owners, should they pay other blacks? There is soooooooo much wrong with the idea of reparation. Lets just offer every black person a free ticket to Africa. Take it or shut up!