Let me see, we have a bunch of hoodlums looting—and that proves we should give them money? For unspecified crimes our distant ancestors are alleged to have done to their distant ancestors?
And the author learned common sense where?
Journalism school.
Let’s follow this all the way, why should American black slavery be singled out as exceptional? Italians can pay germans for enslaving their ancestors, the Scandinavian countries (Vikings) can pay Britain, etc. Black slavery wasn’t unique in history, other than that it was the only slavery for which whites shed blood to stop it.