Since slavery really didn't end until the 1940's and in fact a person can still be enslaved if they commit a crime, which is why high black incarcerations are being questioned, you might want to drop that argument on that basis alone. Secondly reparations are not just for slavery, but the continuing racism afterwards. Then finally there is this that shuts down your dumb excuse laden argument entirely:
I am quite sure no one living in 1980 was alive when the U.S.government made the Fort Laramie treaty with the Sioux Nation or were participants in Custers violation of that treaty. Nor were they alive when President Grant decided it was OK to let settlers and people prospecting for gold tresspass into land promised to the Sioux thereby violating the treaty. No one in 1980 was alive when the U.S. government decided to take the land from the Sioux by military force. No one in 1980 was alive when the U.S. government decided to cut off supplies they promised the Sioux as condition for their surrender after whipping the U.S. Army at The Battle of Little Bighorn. But in 1980, the government of the United States decided reparations were due to the Sioux Nation for what was done to them in the 1800’s. They awarded the Sioux nation 105 million dollars.
The precedent has been set. So your excuses have no merit. You Republicans need to shut the hell up. Your claims are dishonest and in fact, lies. You guys are todays republican party and you're racists. This ain't 1860 and today it is the Republicans who would support slavery. Republicans today oppose anything that advances the interests of blacks and any other non white group. In the 1860's democrats didn't let blacks learn how to read, in 2023 Republicans are banning books written by blacks, oppose any teaching of history that is complete, unless its shows there were benefits to slavery, voted against modern voting rights bills to the extent of using the filibuster like was done in the 60's for the voting rights act. So just shut the fuck up with that Republicans are the savior of blacks bullshit. Republicans were no better than democrats in the past and todays republican party is the home of modern racism.