The way I see it, black people have been given "reparations" for decades now. Starting in the '60s with Johnson's Great Society, we have had affirmative action, Medicaid, WIC and a whole plethora of programs designed (supposedly) to give the black person a helping hand and help him or her to achieve a better life. Today, unless one has a chronic illness or disability, there is really no excuse not to be able to lift oneself out of poverty. Stay in school and you'll get a good education. Most employers nowadays are into "diversity," so if you apply for a job -- unless you are a slacker or a complete idiot -- companies will bend over backwards to give you a job. If you have the money, you can live wherever you want; you don't have to live in the ghetto. Housing discrimination is forbidden. Today black people have just as many, if not more, opportunities than white people. They just have to work for them as do white people.
That is the problem here -- so many want the finer things in life, but they don't want to work for them. They won't take advantage of the opportunities and programs available to them. They want a person like me who has worked hard all her life for what she has to give them money they didn't earn and don't deserve.
The only ones I owe are the credit card companies, utility companies and the taxing bodies. I don't owe anyone else a dang thing.