The concept of " reparations " for PAST racial injustice by long dead white people is actually rather ridiculous

The concept of " reparations " for PAST racial injustice by long dead white people is actually rather ridiculous . We don't inherit the GUILT of past generations. What will correct any form of social injustice today is some form of democratic socialism. After they were pronounced FREE at the end of the American Civil War , Black people were embraced by more " civilized " capitalist wage slavery. Karl Marx explained this very cogently way back in 1848 in the world famous " Communist Manifesto ". Today the profits of the master class are based on generalized wage slavery . No reparations for the Irish, Italian , Chinese, German, Jewish cruelly exploited immigrants during the Industrial Revolution of the anti-slavery North ? In the 1930s poor working class Jews constituted the backbone and leadership of organized labor in the USA. Read Irving Howe's " World of Our Fathers ". Working class people of all races and ethnic groups still need their own American Labor Party - a lot like the British Labor Party but less compromised , more CLASS conscious. Not for nothing great Black authors like Richard Wright ( author of " Black Boy " ) gravitated toward the American Communist Party in the 1930s Depression Era. Both Martin Luther King and Black Muslim Malcolm X had a negative view of capitalism and American imperialism. Way back in 1965 Malcolm X made a connection between racism and capitalism , between racism and imperialism. My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ". In a letter to his wife circa 1953 Martin Luther King said he was leaning toward some form of Christian socialism. Odd that they were both assassinated ! King in 1968, Malcolm X in 1965 .