Reparations for slaves unfair to other victims of injustices

The English were the favorite slaves of the ancient Greeks, later the Greeks were slaves under the Turks and Romans. Romans also enslaved the Spanish, French, Germans and Egyptians. Irish immigrants to the U.S. in the 19th century worked for wages so low that a slaveowner with his slaves could not compete cost-wise against the poor, hard-working Irish. For decades Latinos have climbed under fences and through sewer pipes for the gambler's chance to find jobs in the U.S. to improve their families' well-being, and their eagerness to work has rewarded them. For decades economic hardship and low standards of living clung to the Chinese; however, with diligent study of work most have vastly improved their status emerging as doctors, engineers, lawyers, educators and businessmen as outstanding examples of success.

Instead of tracing their ancestry back to hardship and slavery most people have prepared themselves for the future without government handouts and coddling; they have just tightened their belts and accepted hard work as a condition for enterprising pursuit of great opportunities