[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Maybe, the efforts to make you, your children, grandchildren or great grandchildren feel shame and guilt for long past grievances is a form of bullying to extort some kind of benefit (money, land or preferential treatment) under the guise of "reparation" for some awful thing that happened generations before they were born or could possibly have had any control over.
I had a friend that spent WW2 in a Japanese interment camp. He was surprised and shocked at the idea of reparations as he understood the context of the time and felt it unnecessary and insulted that anyone should think it necessary. Not the same as the slavery issue to be sure, still in the same context of depriving a people of their freedom.

While the short Japanese internment was definitely shameful and a stain in its own right, it's not even in the same universe...as almost a century of nationally condoned slavery.


I heard someone, somewhere, say something that really resonated with me.

In essence..."we're just asking for acknowledgement and to address the problem...not revenge."