If countries or regions must return to their ethnic makeup of 1492, then Americans of European ancestry, start packing your bags! I’m supposedly about 1/16 Indian and the rest European (culturally entirely European). Where do I go — 15/16 of the way back across the Atlantic?
Even injustices of mere decades ago are difficult to redress. To use ethnic origin to try to do that with events that happened centuries ago serves only to create new injustices. It’s a form of racism. It judges people by their ethnic background rather than as individuals.
I guess I had put it in the same category as the Catholic Church apologizing about Galileo 400 years after the fact. It doesn’t change much, but it’s important to apologize, for the character development of the apologizer, as much as anything.
Of course,I didn’t think about the resulting law suits and such.