I like what my friend, Ta'Nehisi Coates said: No, we pay for it. (If it is decided to be done). The either/or approach pits one group against another. But, we, collectively pay for it, including the African Americans (some of whom likely don't need it), who will likely benefit from some kind of reparations that is economic in nature, along with other components. If people understood how African American free labor was used to build the nation's initial social infrastructure. this argument would disappear quickly. The free labor allowed not just planters to get wealthy and wealthier but the ordinary American was able to get an education and training and get to and from their trades and work in order to also uplift their families. All the while African slaves get nothing, not even after the War of Rebellion. I think it is just 3 percent emerged from that slaughter with land of their own to uplift themselves. So, let us frame it not as an "either/or" choice but as a collective choice for all of us to empower the country by fixing the nation's greatest human rights crime - the plundering of the Africans who were involuntarily brought here to make a nation and to enrich the few. "WE" pay for it, all of us, as a country.