If it helps them in providing help where it in needed, and in making it easier for people who need that help to get it, and it makes us more aware of the terrible this people like us were doing not long ago, it's well worth doing.

If it's just words it's hypocrisy. But it can and shouldhelp in doing all those things.

Once again, the focus shouldn't be on the suffering in the past, but on the consequences of that in the present. That's where it differs from the kind of historical injustices that jacqui pointed to there. The consequences of those have worked themselves out, in a way that hasn't been true of the Atlantic Slave Trade. It's analogous in that way to the Holocaust - people are still suffering today because of what happened then.