Originally Posted by Bristoe
I don't know how anybody could really know. By the time you get back to your 6th grate grandparents you've got 128 people feeding into your family tree. 64 couples that you're directly descended from.

Yep. And let's go back another thousand years beyond that. I doubt that there is a person alive today that doesn't have a slave and a slave owner in their ancestry. If you, personally, have never owned a slave, then you aren't responsible for paying reparations to slaves. If you, personally, have never been a slave, then you aren't entitled to reparations for slavery.