Your questions are absurd, and illogical, and does not mention the fact that All whites in
America reaped the benefits of slavery, weather their ancestors owned slaves or not.
Blacks are still at the bottom of the American socioeconomic system. Your questions fails
to also acknowledge the fact that this forced unpaid labor allowed whites to enrich
themselves, and is a theft from the Black slaves!, and to this day nothing has been done
to correct this theft from Black American slaves!. You try to dilute the issue by bringing up
irrellivent issues surrounding the topic of slavery.
Well you've shown yourself to be a coward.
What about blacks? Did they not reap any beneifits?
Asking how much in reparations in irrelevant?
Asking if you can prove you're a direct descendent is irrelevant?
Asking about the thousands of black slaveowners is irrelevant?
Asking about the hundreds of thousands of white men that fought and died to free your your people is irrelevant?
You are the one that's irrelevant as well as being a coward that cannot answer simple direct questions.
You really should stop spouting off bullshit that you cannot prove and refuse to defend.
In response to your questions:
"The benefits Blacks have obtained in America" , when equally compared to the Benefits the majority White population have obtained, is a lot less, and very unequal.
"The question of how much slavery reparations would be sufficient", can not be calculated,
unless you factor in what those many years of forced slave labor would convert to , with interest, in todays dollars.
"Asking if you can prove you are a direct decendent of a Slave"
Any Black American with a WASP, or English last name, proves that they were once enslaved by an English European. As many slaves were given the name of the Slave owner
after the slave was purchased, as a means of identification, if the slave ever ran away, the slave owner could claim the runaway slave as his , or her slave.
"Black Slave owners" , this is another illogical question, as Black slavery in Africa, was part of Tribal customs for many thousands of years ,before white Europeans arrived in Africa.
And it was not considered to be slavery as we view it.The slaves were never bruatlized.
"These white men" were not really fighting over weather slavery should or should not be legal, many historians
state that White men enlisted for the Civil war in order to keep the "Union of American States" intact. Many of
these whites could care less about Blacks, many from the north were in fact racists along with the southern racist.
Did you ever hear of the "Draft Riots" , in New York City, on July, 13, 1863's ?. White men went on a
rampage attacking and murdering any black person they could get their hands on, including children in a orphanage.Thousands lost their lives.They did not want to lose their lives fighting for Black people. Look it up,
Google it if you don't belive me,"Civil War Draft Riots" in New York City, during 1860,the exact date escapes me but I will look it up, and include it in this post. The White men felt that they should not have to die in a "****** War".
Do the research on this one please.!