Help needed! Refer to the Newsela article “Issue Overview: Should the Descendants of Slaves Get Reparations?”

According to the article, how do opponents of reparations make distinctions between groups that have received reparations in the past and the descendants of enslaved people who seek them today?

A. Past recipients suffered serious injustices; the descendants of enslaved people have suffered no real injustices.

B. Past recipients did not receive cash payouts; the descendants of enslaved people will accept no other form of reparations.

C. Victims who received reparations in the past suffered the injustices firsthand; the descendants of enslaved people did not.

D. Victims who received reparations in the past were paid by corporations; the descendants of enslaved people are seeking them from governments.