Most people don't relate to themselves in the context of history. They would wipe the slate clean with their own innocent birth and hope that everyone else do the same.
When one group commits atrocities against another, are individual members of that group responsible? Even if the entire population of the group has been individually replaced?
You can't really make up for the past. Take American slavery as an example. Most whites today feel no special advantage, and why should they?
The playing field hasn't exactly been leveled, but the landscape is changing. Government apologies miss the victims they are owed to by generations. There isn't enough money to make it right, and money isn't the answer to historic wrongs done generations ago. But we can all make an effort to appreciate where we came from and where, together, we might go.
What can you do to help make up for the past wrongs committed by your father, your mother, your grandparents and theirs?
Or do you simply brush it all aside?
