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'Bearing' the mistakes of the ancestors is putting it a little dramatically. After all, many of us are also reaping the vast rewards of our ancestors' success. Isn't it reasonable for someone to feel disenfranchised when they see that one family has a head-start on another family?
Perhaps they do have a right to be pissed off. I say fair enough. More power to them. Do I feel their pain? Do I suffer because they feel inconvenienced? Not one jot. Why should I get upset because someone else feels they have a right to something I already have a right to? They are not harming me. That being said, thank goodness I don't live in Mugabe's Zimbabwe - I care about the sins of today. If someone wants to cause me a personal injustice, then let them try - let that be a sin of today, and not some retribution for injustice in the past. Fair is fair - let sin and hatred continue, everything should pretty much even itself out in the end.
However, I would prefer it if someone wants to work with me in order to help both me, and themselves out. It saves time and money, and is a more secure way of dealing with these issues, because injustice breeds injustice and before long, it could be someone else's ancestors crying foul play.
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