Apologies and Reparations to African-Americans

Walter Williams discusses the impossibility and pointlessness of paying reparations to descendants of slaves. Who would pay these reparations? Descendants of recent immigrants?
From his article… “It goes without saying that slavery was a gross violation of human rights. Justice would demand that all the perpetrators -- that includes slave owners, and African and Arab slave sellers -- make compensatory reparation payments to victims. Since slaves, slave owners and slave sellers are no longer with us, such compensation is beyond our reach and a matter to be settled in the world beyond.” Read Article