^^^^^ You beat me to it. I was thinking the very same thing when reparations got brought up.

"Us us us". What "us" are you talking about? When were you a slave? Are you 300 years old and we just don't know it? No one is holding YOU down. If you're convinced someone is, that's on you.

So, a cheque from the gov will fix it? How much should the cheque be for? And after you've blown it on a truckload of menthols, will you be requiring another cheque? The first one was a mulligan? Will your kids (assuming you know where they are) also require cheques? How about their kids? Where does it end?

Let's face facts. A cheque won't fix it. Just the mentality of someone thinking a cheque will fix anything tells me that a cheque will fix nothing in that person's life.

So what fixes it? Go home. Sell your shit, get a 1 way to Monroeville. You're obviously not happy here. And you're not going to get reparations. And things aren't going to change. So leave. Nothing keeping you here. Other than the really comfortable life you have here. And knowing what a cesspool Africa is.