Beating on a dead mule

I assume Guy Azza  objects to Al Taylor's letter "Slavery 's

    a long dead horse in America ". Guy thinks that the descendants of

    the slave trade  should be compensated: " ..40 acres and a mule compounded

    annually over 350 years ought to do it " (  letter Nov.26 - " A Mule with

    interest " )  .

          I suppose the descendants of the slaves should share all that

    " compensation " with the hundreds of thousands of descendants of

    Union soldiers who perished in the Civil War . General Grant - the Union's

    greatest general - nearly died bankrupt !

            Should the descendants of the horribly exploited mill workers

    of the Industrial Revolution demand compensation from America's " old

    Yankee families " ?

            I can only feel very sad about any ancestor of mine who was the

    victim of great injustice. But what does that entitle me ? Should I

    be as rich as Mo Vaughn ?  ( I'll settle for half of his $ 87.5 million ! )