I'm talking about direct payments specifically. Not only would it require the government determining whose ethnicity is "valid" it would also be putting a price on oppression. Is someone with Jewish ancestry getting the same amount as someone with African ancestry even though the manners of economic discrimination against them are so different? There's just a hundred questions with no easy answers.

Not to mention it still wouldn't address the social barriers that are still in place.  For example, funding schools through property taxes is still the standard even though it's a huge barrier to social progress.