The problem is that you have profited by the misdeeds of your ancestors. It's only the guilty who claim the past is the past and it's nothing to do with them. They know that a court might rule the land is NOT theirs, that Gustav Klimpt is NOT theirs, the State owes the Plaintiffs a ton of money and they are the Defendants.

Mordecai Richler mocked your position in The Incomparable Atuk. He noted Canadians were lecturing the First Nations that there was no way to undo the past 200 years while Ottawa was happily defending the notion at the UN that the world could undo 2000 years of history and return the Holy Land to the Jewish people.

The kind of thinking that's strange is those of White Imperialist backgrounds who think that once they've established their New World Order can then say "Okay, now we're all equal. And it's your fault if you can't compete." Yes, a rising tide lifts all boats, but some of us are on foot.