Quote Originally Posted by GepperRankins View Post
at the risk of being called racist... americans should shut the fuck up about slavery already. nobody alive today is accountable for anything to do with it. so it should be treated like everything else past
I agree. As I posted elsewhere I do not feel responsible for things which happened decades or centuries before I was born.

I know some people take the "sins of the Father" position. However surely it is better to learn from mistakes and move on. What happens in the present and future is the important thing. That's not to say forget what happened, just to accept that it did happen and move on from it.

Can I use the Irish peace process as an example of that. There is no way it could or can work without those involved saying "Enough is enough, let us build a better future. Let us not prevent that happening by dwelling on the past".