Principles of Compensation (Fred Speaking)
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One difference is that it isn't just the employers that end up paying for the compensation you're talking about. It's other job applicants or other employees. When you give a preference to a black applicant, it is the white applicant who pays the greatest price, not the employer. But the white applicant probably did not harm either the black applicant or his parents or grandparents.

I also deny that the effects of injustice are transferred from generation to generation to the extent that you claim. But the main problem here is that you have broadened the principle of compensation to such an extent that innocent people are paying compensation for things they didn't do.

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