Quote Originally Posted by BlueBear
Missing the point? What exactly is

the point? Why should there be reparation made? The answer? It is a two edge sword. What race exactly on the face of this earth hasn't been enslaved? which portion of minority Americans are entitled to reparation? The question seems a little ludicrous to me, but then again I am not into feeding half of the pointless topics that I come across on a daily basis.

At this point, how many other lands and cultures is the US supposed to repay for cruel and manipulative treatment?
Hey, bluebear, first off, I'll go out on a limb and say that none of your relatives or distant ancestors were slaves. Nor were they hapless subjects of U.S. led coups and overthrows in Cuba, Panama (aka Columbia), Nicuragua, Honduras, Iran, Guatemala, and Chile.

OK, so neither were mine.

My point wasn't so much an indictment on human nature as much as "taking to task" the specific bondage, savagery and indignities imposed on an entire race of people. The consequences of never being held accountable for such practices result in attitudes and behaviors that trickle into our policies in Iraq today.

You ask what portion of minorities are "entitled"? Hell if I know, I'll leave the details to you and the lawyers... But I do think reducing the question to who gets what before contextually addressing the "why" is, again, part of what feeds the issue.