At what point does society stop paying for the sins of their fathers?

I think that as a society we will never be able to move fully forward until we can forgive the sins before us. We need to learn from them, remember them, but not dig up dead horses to beat them every time a problem relating to an issues comes up.

Certainly one point where "we stop paying for the sins of the fathers" is when we learn the lessons of history so we do not repeat them. This includes the obvious ban against civil rights violations in its obvious racist form but should also entail barring of any racist or sexist policies. You can not prove racism was wrong by enacting policies that reduces options and opportunities, marginalizes, or punishes one generation of a certain race in order to make up for past racial/gender crimes. This type of thinking is morally bankrupt and sets in perpetual motion a dangerous moral pendulum of racist policies favoring opposing groups from one generation to the next.

The only ones that should receive reparations are the people it directly happened to, after that, what point are we proving. Bad people roam the earth perpetrating bad things on good people. Has happened before and will happen again. You can't blame people generations later for what happened back then and you can't expect apologies from people who had nothing to do with the actions - though some idiotic politicians think it will win them votes. "Live and let live" At some point we have to move on or this will never end.