A California law exposing companies that once insured lives of slaves to benefit white masters is fanning the controversy over whether blacks should receive reparations.
According to Fox News:

The state law taking effect in January requires California insurance companies to make public whether their corporate ancestors sold slave insurance payable to slave owners in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Its supporters see it as another stepping stone to obtaining reparations to present-day African-Americans whose forebears were slaves.

Prominent among them are trial lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, who successfully defended O.J. Simpson in his murder trial.



http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/21/72304.shtml

Tell the story is fine, allow lawyers to line their pockets by forcing insurance companies to atone for the wrongs of 150 years ago claiming reparations to blacks only remotely related to the people who were wronged, what garbage. It cannot be compared to the Jewish situation either. Jews who were murdered by the Germans were striped of their property and that property was seized by the government and placed in hidden bank accounts. Relatives then were given claim to that property. This is just Johnnie Cochran come lately to exploit the situation and profit himself by it. He was'nt that good in the O.J. matter either, it is just that the prosecutor was completely incompetent and could not make a case.

How are the insurance companies to blame? They were just doing their job? All blame should be placed on the government for allowing slavery.
It's a little late to try to make things right with the slaves now, they're all dead! It's unfortunate that proper restitution wasn't made while they were still alive.
The best we can do today is to treat everyone equally and put the evils of the past behind us. I think most people understand equality, but I have little faith that the government will ever figure it out...