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bugeye Your family, let's say, once own 20% of Wyoming. In your family's name, on your deed. but that changed when oil barons (or hunters or developers or....) came to town. They changed the laws and managed to make it impossible for your family to keep their land.
Now, decades and decades later, that land still rightfully belongs to you. You have every right to stake a claim for 20% of Wyoming's open land. But no big deal, right, because what's lost is lost. Who knows what your family might've done with that land. Sold it off yourselves, had it stolen again, made it fallow and unusable...
But you still have a right to the benefits of your family having owned that land and you have a right to be compensated for what you didn't gain by having that land. Unless you don't. Unless we say hey, let's bygones be bygones. Doesn't matter who owns the lands and its rights and its zoning - everyone's sure to benefit, right?
This is about similar land rights for some. For others it's the lost benefit of legal protection, civil rights, the ability to pursue a life of liberty, freedom and happiness. We handicapped and entire race and then blamed them for not winning the competition.
