Slavery reparations?

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Where do you draw the line?
Should the Jews and Muslims be recompensed by Spain for the Spanish Inquisition?

Why not? It wouldn't be a bad thing.

Should Christians be recompensed by Turkey for the actions of the Ottomans? Europeans by the Scandinavian countries, for the ravages of the Vikings?

Yes, and then maybe. If you can find a viking to do the reparations, go ahead. Vikings dont really exist anymore. So in that sense, the 'line' would be drawn if the offended group, or the offending group, still exists.

Everyone has history and most histories, somewhere, sometime, involve being the oppressor and being oppressed. We need to learn the lessons of the past, look to stopping oppression in the present, and stop fretting about "getting even."

Its not about getting even. If it was, people would be pushing for native americans to re-conquer new york, for example. No ones asking for that.

Would you agree that, at the very least, african american slaves deserve an apology from the U.S. government?

Monetary reparations are tricky because you cant just give people money. That accomplishes nothing. And, you can't pay a one-time sum of X dollars and expect that to be sufficient, because that would be the same as putting a price on another persons life. You can't repay some things.

So, why not devote some millions of dollars anually to supporting underpriveleged children? That and an apology would seem to be ample reparation and evidence that the government truly regrets what happened in the past, and is doing all it can to correct the mistake.