actual its not like that at all, the reality of it is that for 300 years the country benefited from forced free labor and then for another 100 years you systematically disenfranchised the same group of people ? people agreed that the Japanese should receive reparations for being placed in camps during the war,  the jews received compensation for being put in concentration camps and neither one of those situations lasted linger than 10 years but for 400 years of history's most barbaric and heinous crime against humanity there is nothing owed ? people say well you weren't a slave and that is true but my grandfather wasn't a college graduate either because he like many of his friends were denied an education, couldn't vote to help enact legislation that would reverse the discriminatory laws this country fought tooth and nail not to change.......yeah you owe if nothing else a formal apology the fact that there has been one shows that there no remorse.