Slavery reparations?

[Ozme52]

Exactly right Dawg.

And to answer CB, yes the Vikings do exist, they're called Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, and Danes. If you disagree, because they're not "still" out there viking... (yes, it's actually originally a verb...)

...then how can you put it on me to make reparations to descendents of American slaves... I'm not descended in any way, manner, or form from American slave holders.

[Ozme52]

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.

Well, you miss my point... before you could do that... don't you have to get the Muslims to recompense Spain for ousting them from the Iberian pennisula in the first place...

of course before that you need to get the Spanish (Visigoths) to repay the Italians for taking it all away from Rome... and the Italians owe the Cathaginians who had it first...

In other words, there is no way to balance the account sheets. The only thing we can try to do is say "It won't happen again." For the most part, at least we in the various democracies around the world are trying to see it true.