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Once you start looking at reparations for slavery and colonialism, you quickly realize it's a debt that the former colonizers will never be able to repay.
And to be honest, for wrongs that were committed over a 350+ year period, it doesn't make sense to repay a debt within a single lifetime.
So I agree with you, something would be better than nothing.
But it is important to make an inventory on what would be justly owed and what has been paid back to date and in what form. Perhaps this process should also last 350 years.
The numbers may sound big to us peons but I'm sure once calculated they'd be a fraction of the countries annually gdp. For the US it would probably only take pausing some military contracts. $40 million per jet adds up quickly and there would be knock on savings from maintenance that would not be required.
It's literally a lack of will and uses the same excuses that keep the 99% poor.
Think of the jobs that would be created trying to calculate each individual's owed amount.