The commission concluded that state officials and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings that followed the Civil War and that the perpetrators were never held accountable in any of the deaths. [More]
So, who better to hold accountable than members of the productive sector who had nothing to do with any of that @150 years later?
And just forget Article 1, Sections 9 and 10.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to a Dacian Liberation Front meeting to demand reparations from you Italians for what Emperor Trajan did to my people — and no, I won’t use “Romanians,” because that’s a slave name.
There is precedent.
Global Islam is still holding all of Christendom responsible for the sack of Jerusalem in 1099CE.
Me? I’d just like some reparations for my Cherokee relatives that perished during the Trail of Tears in the 1830s and 1840s and for my Scots relatives continuing abuse by the English usurpers since James II was driven into exile in 1688.
I want reparations for the death in Salisbury, North Carolina of my teenage great uncle while a prisoner of the Confederacy. He served in the DC Cavalry and the Maine Cavalry.