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You're wrong there. All the descendants of the white slave owners are people who profited from slavery through inheritances.
What percentage of Americans are descendants of slave owners? a lot of Americans didn’t even immigrate to the untitled states until after slavery was abolished.
it's a vanishingly small number. only around 6% of all Americans were slave owners. some were killed during the civil war, others in succeeding wars (notably WW1 and WW2) - the current number is unknown as that isnt really tracked, but it's unlikely to be more than 4% of the current population.
you cant really fault the decedents for what happened 200 years ago though - they werent there, their parents, and even grandparents werent born yet. for most families it's been 5 or 6 generations (or more). getting reparations would be something that should have been attempted 200 years ago. it's simply laughable to consider it now.
You could look that up and let us know.
People apart from the Uber elite get inheritance? Unless they die suddenly, I assumed it all went to end of life care or scammers