Reparations is not about justice nor atonement for past sins. It it purely economic. Two things are at work here. First, there is an ongoing tide against welfare and affirmative action. While these government handout programs are by no means dead, the black leadership is scaring people into thinking their free ride may soon be over.
Reparations is a means of keeping the free money flowing.
Second, and most important, is that Hispanics have now reached the same percentage of the population as blacks. In a few years, their influence on national and state policies will be very visible. Whites are generally generous people, but Hispanics could care less about handouts for blacks. It is the Mexicans who are moving here in droves, imported by farmers and businessmen who find that blacks make poor employees, while Mexicans are hard workers. As always happens, these Mexicans will one day be granted citizenship.