> The problem with this is that children and relatives cannot be held legally responsible for crimes (or wrongs) committed by their parents/ancestors. (At least not in the USA.)

But no reparations scheme attempts to find anyone legally responsible, surely?

Most of them are simply aimed at pricking the consciences of organisations that benefited from (and sometimes exist only because of) slavery.

If even transfers of money are concerned it's usually in the form of donations to foundations and state aid, at least that is how it is here in the UK.