Please identify the slave owners and punish them, not the rest of us. Most people in American didn't own slaves. Hell even most white people that weren't Jewish didn't own slaves. The reputation was earned: http://heyjackass.com/

> that weren't Jewish

What does this mean

There's a long-standing effort by Nation of Islam (the American hate group that is only nominally Islamic) to rewrite the history of slavery in the US as largely orchestrated by and for Jews. Nonetheless the actual numbers show that they "possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean" [1] though the reason why is still not well understood.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2674370

Hate groups pointing out facts to further their own agendas doesn't make the facts any less factual. There is no more reason to bring the Nation of Islam into this discussion than there is to bring in the persecution of the Palestinian people.

The US fought a civil war with the entities owning slaves. But reparations to slaves and their descendants is a separate issue from affirmative action.