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All we owe the people of the past is to look at them in the context of their own time, not in the context of our time. They, like us, fell out of the womb into an already-existing society with already-existing beliefs and institutions. Like us, they had no choice but to play the cards God dealt them.

Profound!

Once again Charlie Reese hit the nail on the head.

It is presumptious, it is dishonest, it is wrong to apologize for something you didn't do, to someone it didn't happen to.

Slaves and slave owners have all gone before a higher court, and have faced a higher justice than anything we can mete out here.

Slavery as an institution once stained this world from one end to the other; but God broke its back here, and when we ended it its days were numbered around the world.

If we must recognize that we were once complicit in the slave trade, and it is only fair that we do so, we must also recognize that it was the US Army and the British Navy that ended the slave trade world wide; that thanks to us it no longer exists anywhere outside of a few miserable, muslim hellholes.

It should likewise be recognize that the largest, the worst, and most brutal example of Western enslavement of Africans was committed by Belgians in the Congo. This most horrific chapter in African history did not end until after the second world war. Belgium has yet to come to terms with its record there.

The drive for reparations has nothing to do with repairing an injustice. It is simply another way for many blacks (though thankfully not all of them) to attempt to keep extorting handouts while avoiding labor at all costs.

The shakedown racket which Je$$ie Jackson turned into an art form is losing it's effectiveness. People are wising up to what a disaster welfare has been and it is getting cut back. Affirmative-action is rapidly losing its protection by the courts.

Furthermore, blacks are losing their political clout with increased latino and asian immigration. These latinos and asians further undermine blacks by working 14 hour days whereas the blacks (not all of them, mind you) sit on their asses, collect welfare, bitch about past injustices and whine about reparations --which ain't never gonna happen!.