Reply #112: Is the son responsible for the sins of the father?

[IrishPagan]

And where does it stop?
My Irish immergrant ancestors where treated worse than any other segment of American culture at the time, including slaves, who were vieiwed as "valuable property". It took an act of congress, in a resolution, to ensure the eradication of descrimination in the workplace and housing toward Irish Catholic immergrants in the mid-1800's.
Oriental immigrants where not allowed to vote until almost the 20th century, and recieved no such help from those hallowed halls of power.
Yes, slavery was, and still is in other countries today, a reprehensible institution. And yes, there are many decendants of slaves alive today.
But is anyone checking their ancestral roots to ensure that that person is indeed decended from a slave? Is anyone even bothering to check to see if that person is a decendant of a black slave owner? Or are reparations handed out willy-nilly to any black person who asks?