Should America Pay Reparations for Slavery?

The reason I support reparations is that, as described in Inequality by Design by Fischer et al, denying equal rights to a racial or ethnic group tends to set in motion a system that oppresses their descendants for generation after generation. The descendants of American slaves, and the descendants of Americans that were victims of Jim Crow laws, are still at a disadvantage due to past governmental denial of equal rights. They are entitled to reparations.

Precisely how to make reparations is not obvious. It would be good to so this in a way that would surmount the continuing effects of systemic racism. I am not sure how best to do that.

What Hughes says about "making people into victims" is meaningless wordplay, treated as if it meant something. I love wordplay, but do not confuse it with substance.

The UN has released recordings of the Salafi Arabian officials with Jamal Khashoggi before and while they killed him.

Uighur writer Nurmuhammad Tohti died recently, a couple of months after release from Chinese prison. It appears the prison denied him needed medical care, then released him when he was at death's door. This amounts to murder.

I have to point out that the US does similar things.

Chennai's reservoirs are empty; many businesses and schools have been forced to close.

Global heating is surely increasing the likelihood of such events.

Economic disadvantage in the UK denies the non-wealthy on average over 3 years of healthy life.

A somewhat more equal society would enable everyone to stay alive and healthy as long as the wealthy generally do now.