Getting reparations would have to involve 4 things:
1. Republicans who aren't Klan and Nazi adjacent in the house and senate.
2. Actual infrastructure around classifying who is and who isn't eligible. Otherwise you end up like Canada where people who look like Taylor Swift are claiming indigenous ancestry.
3. A white public who won't go absolutely insane knowing that their tax money is going directly towards black people and black people only.
4. Precedent showing that it can be implemented and it benefits the entire community, not just one group specifically.
1 is possible if people take local elections seriously and turn out to vote for progressive city council members and governors.
2 is possible due to think tanks that are currently trying to study how this could be implemented.
3 is only possible due to a massive campaign of cultural change. Movies, books, TV shows all showing how systemic racism has held america's potential back, but also using alternate history or speculative plot points showing how america would look if reparations were a thing.
4 is possible if the first two points are done. Reparations can and have been considered at a local level.
If you're expecting a candidate running for president to blatantly tell one group who isn't worth trillions of dollars and has a sophisticated lobbying apparatus that they're going to get special treatment, then your desire to get to a destination far outweighs your capacity to chart out a route to get there. You aren't aware of the political systems and realities of the country you live in, and you might as well just not vote if you are unwilling to do the mental work others are doing to achieve the goal.
Reparations will happen eventually, it is the direction this country is (far too slowly) moving in.
However, it's the childish fantasy of a small mind to think a president will show up and by executive order to send million dollar checks to nearly 48 million people overnight. That's 48 TRILLION dollars while the federal government has collected only about 4 trillion dollars so far in revenue and there is still a national deficit.
Any president who tried to do that would not only get blocked and experience historic disapproval ratings guaranteeing that another president from that party would not be president again for probably another generation, they'd put a gigantic battery in the back of white racists all over the land. Good luck fighting back when white men own more guns than black and hispanic men combined.
There is no definitive data source from the government or elsewhere on how many Americans own guns or how gun ownership rates have changed over time.
www.pewresearch.org
If you're a single issue voter and won't vote unless a candidate lies to you about reparations, then you're better off just voting for a fringe candidate or not voting at all and instead using your energy to support local non-profits who help people within your community to obtain the means to escape poverty and become financially stable.
