The case for reparations is ridiculous

Guardian:
The Case for Reparations Is Solid 
This is historical clap trap.  Should the Egyptians be paying reparations to the Jews whose slave labor they used to build the pyramids and still make money off of?   Should the Turks and Arabs be paying reparations to Europeans for the galley slaves they used on their ships?  How about paying it to the Slavs whose use as slaves gave rise to the word slave.

I make no excuses for slavery, but it should be noted that Africans were involved in the slave trade too, but there is no movement to make their ancestors pay reparations.  The forced migration of blacks to the new world was wrong, but their progeny are clearly better off than they would have been if they had remained in Africa.

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