Granted, many if not most of the people who advocate reparations by the United States government to descendants of slaves mean well.  However, implementation would actually be mean and unjust.  In fact, such reparations would be far more unjust to more innocent people than "just" to the descendants of slaves. Most fundamentally, the beneficiaries would not be people aggrieved themselves, but rather distant descendants of aggrieved individuals.  However, the people who would be paying the reparations would  include an extremely high percentage of people directly aggrieved — descendants of people who did not live in the United States during the period of slavery, and even descendants of people who lived in the United States at that time but who did not own slaves, including descendants of slave-owners.  (Such descendants likewise may never have owned slaves; may have opposed slavery and may have gone out of their way...(Read Full Article)