Collective Guilt
Reparations for America’s slave holding past is a subject that was a hot topic earlier in the Democratic primaries. Just about everyone was for it. Some (Elizabeth Warren in particular) were even for reparations for all non-whites in the country. Warren’s basis for this was that non-whites must have been discriminated against at some point in America’s past. Therefore, recompense was required.
Warren’s position was a desperate pandering for votes from the extreme left wing of the Democratic party. She needed to be further left than Bernie Sanders if she was to pry loose the young Marxists that had flocked to his campaign.