How many generations before the scars of slavery are removed from the memory of African Americans?

Reparations? Payback? So long as people still think like that, they will never get over it. Myself, I am Irish. Not one single slaveholder in my ancestral line. And yet, the first two answerers want me to pay them or to get revenge on me? Just how are any of you going to know, without thorough research, just who has ever owned slaves in their family? My God, that is all so lame and generations too late. If you want reparations, Go to the Muslims, who began the practice of exporting and keeping African slaves. (They kept white slaves, too, btw) Google 'from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli'. The Dutch were the first and most prolific at bringing African slaves here. Slaves, for thousands of years, were normal in all societies. The United States stops it, works against racism, even against it's own citizens to change attitudes... gives you opportunities, freedom, equality (increasingly more realistic) and you want the one country who did all that to be the ones to pay? If there are problems today, it is those types of attitudes that will be the main reason why. I'm sure my partner of 15 years would be appalled (he's a black man, direct descendant of a runaway slave, and my best friend).