you in support of reparation payments?

No, I don't. The injustices created by slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, & implicit bias are far too deep for a simple cash payment to fix them. If we just gave all living descendants of slaves a cash payment, that money would end up flowing into the hands of businesses, which are predominantly owned by white people, and then the tax revenue would predominantly be invested into white-majority areas.

If we want to actually fix the scars of our past, we need to de-segregate our cities and fund public services at the state or national level. We need to grant black people political representation proportionate to their population size, such as through reforming Senate & House vote allocation and replacing the electoral college with a national popular vote. We need to reform our social services to eliminate welfare ceilings and lift people out of poverty traps, and we need to loosen zoning codes in order to reduce rents, thus allowing lower-income people to keep a greater proportion of their money. We need to make one million little systemic changes to make all organizations in America less biased against racial minorities and give black people truly equal opportunity.

If we did all of that, then the intergenerational wealth loss which occurred as a result of systemic racism would still exist, but in my opinion, eliminating intergenerational wealth altogether should be a policy goal for the US government. Nobody should be considered superior or inferior to anyone else based solely on the parents they were born to. If such a bill to simply pay out cash reparations were introduced today and I were in Congress, I'd vote for it because I'm in favor of transferring wealth from the owning class to the working class, and on average, this would fit the bill. But it's far from the optimal policy, and I hope we can aim higher than just that.