So just to summarise forum sentiment:
We can't pay for the sins of our fathers
We can however continue to benefit for them
We can also continue to let others suffer because of them.
Cool beans, I'll try to remember the mantra.
Not remotely.
1) We might be able to compensate for the sins of our fathers, but not our great, great, great, great grandfather's and certainly not someone else's great, great, great grandfather. I am fairly confident Lincolnshire brick making ancestors did not profit one bit from the slave trade.
2) You can be as woke as you like but I defy you to convincingly link anything I do today to an advantage clearly gained by the slave trade. If we lived in Liverpool or Bristol you might have something. But our city was build on the blood of white adults and children, not black.
There is a big historical problem here as well that non historians fall into, which is judging by modern standards rather than contemporary. We look at slavery as comprehensively wrong, of course we do. That is a very new attitude. While slavery never had a legal status on English soil, the idea of slavery being wrong has been embedded for 150 years of mankind's 30,000 hear history.
The Romans thought nothing of a 9 or 10 year old girl being married off and forced to have sex. The Norman feudal system enforced the "right if the first night" whereby a feudal lord had the right to take the virginity of a serf bride before she was married. Henry VIII was very proud of his invention of boiling to death as a punishment. Victorians passionately defended the role of young children cleaning dangerous machinary in factories.
All anathema to us now, but because they are based on non- racial discrimination we don't look on them with the same disgust. Historians question that, as well as questioning the utility of assuming beliefs and attitudes we no longer agree with were evil. You gain no knowledge or understanding of the past by simplistically labeling the protagonists as "evil" and that includes people like Hitler.
3) No, that is not what anyone on the forum has said. I have said exactly the opposite several times.
You have not provided any model for how you would intend to end the suffering of descendents of slaves (and remember, this will be overwhelmingly from America since relatively few black Britons will descend from slaves) through restitution. You haven't even said what form such restitution should take, despite me asking you and saying that I might even agree with your answer