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Originally Posted by Yakk
There are people fighting to get back the land they lost centuries ago (Ireland, Isreal, Africa, Spain, Aboriginals in North America). As someone on the winning side of historical theft, I can understand why people would want to say 'shut up about it, it is the past, let it lie'.
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I see your point but almost every group of people (nations) got their land from someone else. I imagine the same is true almost everywhere. Years from now we will probably be raising hell when someone takes it from us as well. It would be almost impossible to trace back who has original rights to the land. The people today claiming rights to land are in many cases just as guilty of historical theft as those who stole it from them.
While JP Morgan's apology is commendable, I suspect it has more to do with good PR than anything else. As mentioned in the original post, the connection after so many transfers is tenuous at best. When it comes down to it the whole U.S. government is accountable for the slavery that occured here.