We can not know the depths of individual pathos, as evidenced by recent school shootings. No doubt slavery was a flagrant sin, but Representative Conyers has decreed himself into a corner with his grandiose statement comparing black and Jewish plights. Both the holocaust and slavery were horrors that serve as constant reminders of man's inherent evil. The telling aspect of these two events is what has occurred since those scourges were foiled. Jews have regrouped and prospered for the last fifty years.
Blacks continue to lament the previous one hundred fifty years rather than pursue a future.
Now the cry is for the most racially diverse society in human history to compensate blacks for being sold into slavery by their own people. We are witnessing a twenty-first century reprise of slave trading with black leadership acting as auctioneers. A few years ago, the liberal cry was for South African freedom. It has now come to pass. Prosperity in America is more obtainable than ever, and that is ample argument for closure to this reparation nonsense.