Well, a lot of my ancestors from upstate NY joined the union army. Maybe I’ll get a pass on the reparations thing. LOL!
I would without a seconds hesitation. Slavery is the second worst thing you can do to a person or people, murder and genocide being the worst. It does not matter what the state of race relations are now.
The southern rebellion was the anti-American revolution. The American revolution was founded on the belief that all men are created equal (and yes I know we didn’t live up to it) where the confederacy was founded, it’s cornerstone rested, on the belief that some men were superior to other men and should rule over them.