Why do Californias that have never owned slaves, owe reparations to Californias that were never slaves?

someone must have been watching and clicked his thumb before I had a chance to be #2. Shocks. I was so close. Anyway, the other day I thought I had developed a hole in my head. When I came to my senses I realized that ...my brains were leaking out after finding myself rooting to watch an "epic confrontation" between two derelicts, two morons really, soon enough on a screen near us.