Reparations and apologies should be voluntary. It's a "sins of the father" situation. I'm from an Irish-Catholic family, but I never felt I needed to apologize to protestants for the bombings the IRA did in the past. I wasn't involved, and so I don't owe anybody a damn thing. The best we can do is acknowledge atrocities for happening so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

Apologies only make modern people, many of whom don't have a racist cell in their body, seem guilty of a crime.