Reparations

Historically, my family has never been wealthy, we have never owned slaves, nor benefitted from them.

So why should me or my family pay any reparations? 

It's not the government, it's the taxpayer footing the bill, the majority of which never benefitted from slavery in any way. 

In fact a significant minority of families didn't come to the country until fairly recently, so why should they pay reparations?

The whole thing is a nonsense, stirred up and promoted by grifters that want money.

If reparations are to be paid, how far back should it go? Do I have a claim against France for the conquest of the country and the take-over by the Normans? 

Do I have a claim against the Scandinavian countries for the Viking takeover of the North of Britain? I'm sure the Vikings killed Britons and took many as slaves, so where's my money?

Do I have a claim against Italy for the Roman conquest, people who certainly took and profited from British slaves?

If those claims look stupid and incredulous, so do the claims made against a slave trade that died out 200 or 300 years ago.