Fair Questions about Reparations for Slavery for Black Americans

1.) Do people who are 100% black, 50% black, 25% black, 10% black, 5% black, 1% black, 0.1%
black and 0.01% black all receive the same amount of reparations money, or would it vary based
on someones percentage of black heritage?

2.) Would it be a one-time reparations payment, or an ongoing reparations payment? If its a

one-time payment, presumably it could be a much larger reparation, but would children born
just after the official date of the payment get nothing? Would the estate of old folks who died
just before the official date of the payment get nothing? If its an ongoing payment, presumably
it would be much less money in that case, how many years would it last forever, or if it had
a defined term, how many years would it last?

3.) Would a mother with 6 children receive a larger reparation payment than a mother with 3
children? If so, would this produce a financial incentive for a mother to have more black babies?

4.) Do black people who have one ancestor who was a slave get the same reparations as a black
person who had dozens of ancestors who were slaves? Or would the reparations vary depending
on how many ancestors were slaves?

5.) Many records werent kept well in the 19th century they were hand-written documents,
some of which are extremely hard to read today, many of which no longer exist, and many of
which only contained first names for black people (and many of the first names were the same,
as well as last names). Would someone have to truly prove that their ancestor was a slave to
receive reparations? Or in cases where it was truly vague and unclear, would those people be
granted reparations anyway, even if that resulted in less money for people who could prove a
direct ancestoral connection to slavery?

6.) Thousands of blacks were slave owners in America. If a black persons lineage includes black
slave owners, would they still get reparations just as if their ancestors were only slaves?

7.) If someones ancestor became a slave in America 1864, one year before enamcipation, would
they receive as much reparations money as someone else whose first ancestor arrived in 1765,
one hundred years before slavery ended? What if someones first ancestor arrived in 1880,
suffering under the Jim Crow era but not slavery. Would they receive reparations too? And if so,
the same amount?

8.) If a black person lives today in an American city where slavery has never existed under the
United States of Amerca, like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Cleveland,
etc., how will they conduct research what might be their roots in pre-Great Migration
confederate South? Will they have to pay themselves to visit county records offices in Georgia,
North Carolina and Lousiana to conduct this research? If not, would the government have to pay
for the research, even if it reduced the amount of money left for the actual reparations?

9.) If a black person is denied reparations payments for the reason that they failed to adequately
prove an ancestral connection to slavery, will there be an appeals process? If so, would they be
appointed lawyers or representatives for the appeals process, even if that reduced the pool of
money available for the actual reparations?