BLM is asking questions descendants of former slaves have been asking for centuries.
I don't think our political elites will do little more than offer lip service for this country's heinous participation in slavery.
Yet, our "leaders" have no problem sanctimoniously chiding nations today who participate in what we founded during the 17th century.
That said, this nation as paid reparations for incarcerating Japanese-Americans during WWII. We also have given money to nations that attacked us, so they might rebuild what we destroyed in WWI & WWII.
We have also broken every treaty we signed with Native-Americans, while attempts were made to annihilate their tribes. Today we give them sovereign state status, on lands where we relocated them, or allowed them to reclaim. We've also given them compensation, and continue to fund them today.
African-Americans do have a point. How can this nation resolve it? We might start by editing the course language used in our constitution towards their males, as well as Native-American males. (3/5 of a "white" for legislative apportionment). Should we proceed along that route, we might wish to address our slight of females of all races.
As to the issue of reparations for slavery, at one time the argument was how we identify the descendants of slaves. Today DNA can resolve that. Our greater issue seems to be where we'd get the money, not who deserves to receive the reparations.
At any rate, a national dialogue should be convened to at least debate whether we owe the descendants of slaves an apology. Slavery is our nation's great shame, far more repulsive in my view than anything the Nazis did.
