Reparations is literally proposed for descendants of slaves. Therefore, slavery is the issue on the table. You've never been a slave. Therefore, you aren't owed money for slavery.
Fix the problems that exist now? Hell, yes. Expect my taxes to pay you for something that never happened to you and that my ancestors never perpetrated? Um, no. I would have no problem paying reparations to people who had been slaves and their immediate family members. None of them are alive anymore. I don't blame you for wanting money. I like money too, but I won't get it because my great, great so-and-so walked the Trail of Tears. I'm also not going to support taking it from the country's depleted coffers when the majority of us aren't descended from slaveowners, and even those that are don't own any damn slaves.
Fix the problems that exist now? Hell, yes. Expect my taxes to pay you for something that never happened to you and that my ancestors never perpetrated? Um, no. I would have no problem paying reparations to people who had been slaves and their immediate family members. None of them are alive anymore. I don't blame you for wanting money. I like money too, but I won't get it because my great, great so-and-so walked the Trail of Tears. I'm also not going to support taking it from the country's depleted coffers when the majority of us aren't descended from slaveowners, and even those that are don't own any damn slaves.
