I'm sorry slavery every happened, but I agree that it's part of our history and not something we should have to make reparations for. It'd be tricky to try and make reparations anyway. Lots of people don't know that there were plenty of black slave-owners, too, particularly in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of south Louisiana. And then there's the very complicated fact that a very impressive majority of us, especially those of us who come from the American deep South, have some percentage of African ancestry. As more and more people undergo DNA ancestry testing, this is becoming increasingly clear. So those two factors alone make reparations impossibly complicated to try and address.

We need to let history guide us in how not to behave in the future. And perhaps turn our attention to areas of the world where slavery still exists and work on changing that.