Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
As are corporations and institutions that benefited from those events .
Corporations and institutions with records of involvement. I have no direct connection to gains from slavery neither does Hawaii (joined after slavery ended) but their citizens are taxpayers too, payback slaves descendants was not part of their deal when signing up for statehood.

There’s a big difference between killing a race and enslaving them and later freeing them IMO. Incidentally it just happened to be Americans who freed the slaves (speaking of the US slaves of course). We kind of had a little thing called the Civil War over it. Perhaps the sons of the freed slaves should be paying me back because I live in the north and we fought to free them. A ridiculous statement I know but no more ridiculous than asking the country that fought for and won your freedom, to give you any payback.