Letters | Reparations are counterproductive

RE YOUR RECENT op-ed on reparations:

Reparations for all Americans is more appropriate than just for African-Americans. What about the American Indians who have suffered, and are still on reservations and treated like they are low-class human beings?

I never met my grandparents, who were executed in a concentration camp in Poland - thanks to the Nazis. Yet I don't feel that anybody owes my mother or family members any money for something that was part of history.

My family wasn't even here when blacks were slaves, so why should I have to pay for anything that pertains to the past?

When will we stop giving in to the pressures of the past?

Start looking forward and do the best you can for yourself and your children. Learn from the past like we all do and stop complaining.

Children need to have something positive to look up to instead of constantly bringing up the past and saying we owe them. We owe nothing to anyone, especially for things from 300-400 years ago.

Ken Milgrom

Philadelphia