Can something not be your for fault and still be your responcility

Can something not be your fault and still be your responsibility?

This question poses a million thoughts through my head, as my morality seems to be playing a tether match with the ideas Coats addresses. As I review this idea of responsibility over and over in my head, I simply can not tell whether he is correct or not. On one hand I am being told that people can not be held responsible for the actions of their descendants. I have always been taught that each person is their own, and can only be judged by the actions they control. This is a concept that i hold near and dear to my heart, as I review the holocaust. As portrayed in “The Case for Reparations’ ‘, being held accountable for people’s actions is an extremely relevant topic that can be related to the halacaust, Coates argument, and my ideas, all in one. Less than a hundred years ago 6 million of my people were slaughtered in Germany for the sole fact that they were jewish. This hatred that consumed the hearts of people in Germany, that would allow this to happen or even help, is inconceivable. Although this may be true and the holocaust will be a tragedy that will be engraved into my mind forever, I will not judge the ansestors of said Germans to impact my treatment toward them. I will allow them the luxury of making their own legacy for themselves, apart from the horrid actions of their descendants. While I see this side of the argument, the other side is clear as well. Coates explanation about Mitch Maconels failure to take responsibility goes far beyond the slavery that was abolished after the cviil war. It even goes beyond the terrorism, rasism, and discrimination that African Americans endured in this country with the Jim Crow Laws and other acts terrorizing black people. Coates makes a similar argument that is made in “The Case for Reparations”. Coates brings light to the fact that slavery has not been reprimanded, but transformed. Rather than cleaning up white people’s homes, they are sent to prisons where black people are the largest population, even though they are a minority. Rather than picking cotton, they endure the “red lining”. Rather than being forced to use separate bathrooms, they suffer “black homeowner looting of sum over 4 billions dollars”. This country has found a new way to disguise utter racism as societal normalities, subjecting African American’s to a different society than the one other Americans live in. Coates says something in his video that seems to have made my argument one sided. He exclaims, “ While emancipation dead bolted the door against the bandits of America, Jim Crow wedged the windows wide open… It was a hundred fifty years ago and it was right now.”