The hearing yesterday was about whether Congress should study the issue. It's telling that people want to jump immediately to "it's logistically impossible". the question on the table is not a vote on a dollar figure or exact mechanism of reparations, it's whether our elected representatives should study an issue that is clearly hugely consequential to the nation. why should "it's hard" be an excuse for our government to take on such issues? Is that not the reason we have a representative government, to examine difficult national problems and come up with solutions?
That question aside, my biggest personal objection to monetary reparations is that it gives everyone's racist uncle a built-in excuse to keep being racist. "Y'all took my hard earned tax dollars and gave it to the blacks, now we're all square and they better stop complainin' about the discrimmy-nation."