I don't think you are open to having your mind changed.
blacks are not the only ones to whom the government has broken promises. with the current year assault on the founding principles and very doctrine proclaiming is a nation at all, you're focused on a sour deal over a century ago ? I'm pretty sure your mind is already made up....

My ancestors fought and died in the civil war to defend emancipation. Although I agree that a binding contract with the government was set and broken, it became unenforceable when none of the parties survived. Otherwise anyone with any claim of loss, at any time in history, even beyond the Civil War, could in principle have a valid claim, including my ancestors.

Similar to the immigration policy. Once upon a time, we asked how many were practical to invite, as a responsible host. We did not assume that 7 billion people could move to the US.

Our law is intended to provide equal opportunity, which means NO ONE is special. So elevating anyone above others is against the spirit of our law, even if harm has been done to them individually, especially when practically unenforceable.

I appreciate your distinction between personal culpability and the state's liability. I would support your proposals and agree that they are just and feasible if administratively challenging. I also think that our polarized politics would benefit from a truth and reconciliation process.

Ultimately, I think the most effective, easiest, and least divisive way of providing reparations is through social democracy. The Federal Reserve has become very good at keeping the financial system and large corporations capitalized. If there were the political will, perhaps we could make them provide the capital that people need to shape their lives, at least by easing the budgets of states and local governments whose pensions were left uninsured and unregulated when private ones were rescued by the federal government.

The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining already ensures that African Americans have less capital. Bank consolidation and top heavy financing that redistributes ownership to private equity is increasing inequality for everyone else too. Minorities during the civil rights movement demanded programs like ethnic and gender studies in order to increase participation in the public sphere only for those programs to be devalued and public spending cut as the population grew. Ordinary people are increasingly well-educated but become slaves to debt because of those cuts and because they don't have the inheritances of past generations. Neoliberals are uninterested in reversing the trend, but Stephanie Kelton, an MMT economist, recently wrote a book about the policies that could change this called "The Deficit Myth."

We could get the black community to read Dontell Jackson “We Thought They Were White” and then ask Israel for the money? [wethoughttheywerewhite.tumblr.com] Or we could adopt the Ethnostate idea and offer blacks $2500 and a plane ticket or face imprisonment like Israel did? Idk but if it’s good enough for thee then it’s good enough for me! 1 more since you brought up the Bible how about “the truth shall set us free” Amen