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Originally Posted by Willravel
We, the United States. There's no need to feign ignorance, it's dishonest.
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I was not feigning ignorance. Nor was I being obtuse. My point is that even though I'm a U.S. citizen, I will not be held responsible nor feel guilt for any great misdeeds upon Native Americans (or upon African Americans, for that matter) by my great, great grandfather and his generation, and by generations before that.
I believe that the generation that is responsible for a great misdeed, is likewise the generation that should be held responsbile for apologizing and for making reparations for it, e.g. the Germans of WWII. If not that generation, then maybe the next generation after it – but that's as far as it should possibly go. After that, the statute of limitations, so the speak, has run out. If an apology and reparations haven't been made by that time, then it's too late. It will just have to go down in the books as yet another unatoned atrocity in human history.