The majority of no ethnic group owned slaves, and I've never seen a claim otherwise.
Not explicitly, no, but plenty of people imply that slavery of black people in the US rests entirely with white people and all white people at that. Yet, as you've pointed out, the majority of white people in the US would not have been rich enough to ever own slaves (plus plenty of white people in the US would have had ancestors that arrived in the US after slavery was abolished). Instead, it is likely that the upper class of white people from generationally wealthy families who are the ones who have historic ties to slavery.
Here you can see why the ruling elite love pushing the slavery message on to white people as a whole - it distracts from the actual reality that it is their inherited wealth that was accrued in part due to slavery. If anyone was to pay "repatriations", it should be these people, not white people as a whole. What they are pushing has some resemblance to "privatise the profits, socialise the losses".
No one should pay reparations on the principle that we don't visit the sins of the father on the son. If they wanted to confiscate the wealth of slave owners, they should have done so back then. Now, reconstruction was shitty on the whole south, so some slave owners were fucked over along with a lot of other people, but it wasn't systematic reparations. Northerners got no punishment other than the freeing of their slaves, that I'm aware of. It's too late for that now.
Not explicitly, no, but plenty of people imply that slavery of black people in the US rests entirely with white people and all white people at that. Yet, as you've pointed out, the majority of white people in the US would not have been rich enough to ever own slaves (plus plenty of white people in the US would have had ancestors that arrived in the US after slavery was abolished). Instead, it is likely that the upper class of white people from generationally wealthy families who are the ones who have historic ties to slavery.
Here you can see why the ruling elite love pushing the slavery message on to white people as a whole - it distracts from the actual reality that it is their inherited wealth that was accrued in part due to slavery. If anyone was to pay "repatriations", it should be these people, not white people as a whole. What they are pushing has some resemblance to "privatise the profits, socialise the losses".
No one should pay reparations on the principle that we don't visit the sins of the father on the son. If they wanted to confiscate the wealth of slave owners, they should have done so back then. Now, reconstruction was shitty on the whole south, so some slave owners were fucked over along with a lot of other people, but it wasn't systematic reparations. Northerners got no punishment other than the freeing of their slaves, that I'm aware of. It's too late for that now.