They weren't alive or enslaved either. No one owes them anything. It's just another ploy to keep race relations on edge, get something for nothing and keep blacks in the mindset that they have to be dependents. My Daddy was poor as dirt. Money was literally nonexistent in his boyhood household but he was taught to never take a handout, eat bread by the sweat of your brow and that if a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat. That mentality was one of the things that helped make America great, the first time