The questions around reparations to descendants of slaves in America often trigger strident conversations. …Okay; since I have Irish blood in me, where are my reparations as the likely descendant of a slave, eh? Whoops. People who blather about “descendants of slaves” without even a thought for personal responsibility are just begging to become abject slaves themselves.
Almost everyone on Earth is descended from people who were slaves, serfs, indentured servants, some lord or chieftain’s peasant workers, servants or sharecroppers at some point in time.