Settler-colonialism is still ongoing, and the damages from the slave trade still impact those from slave families and the countries they were taken from, and the gains from slavery have been protected. Imagine if one family stole everything from another, causing generational wealth in one family and generational poverty in the other. Should the generations born into wealth that came from theft not pay reparations to the people born into poverty as a direct consequence of said theft? The answer is yes.