What about Repentance?

We are seeing something in America that is very disturbing.
The left tried to keep Kavanaugh from being nominated to the supreme court because of an unsubstantiated accusation from when he was 16 years old. It was not true, but even if it had been, is there ever forgiveness?
Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia was in a picture of a black-faced man and another man in a KKK hood. I think he was the black-faced man. This happened some thirty to forty years ago. Both of these men have been productive good citizens of society for their adulthood. No Bill Clinton scandal/lifestyle up to their present position.  One is a Democrat/Leftist, the other a Republican/conservative. Then we have people including the democratic candidates for president calling for Reparations for blacks from Slave owners.  No blacks alive today were ever slaves, nor is anyone alive today one of the former slave owners. Who pays the reparations, and who receives the reparations? Am I still responsible for what our ancestors did over 100 years ago? How many generations must pass until we can be forgiven? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,----16? One more point I would like to bring out, 620,000 Americans from the North and from the South gave their lives over this issue of slavery and the north won abolishing slavery. Do those deaths mean anything? On the other hand, we want rehabilitation for prisoners, some who committed terrible crimes when they were young.  Churches and AA believe in repentance and turning lives around, a drunk becoming a good productive citizen. I did some stupid things when I was young, should I have a millstone tied around my neck for the rest of my life because of something stupid from my teenage years? Or should rehabilitation for alcoholics and drug abusers and criminals and other wrongdoers be the right approach? Which do we want in America? More Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh,  Ralph Northam types being drug through the mud because of something that did or didn't happen in their youth?  Which America do we really want and how will it affect me?  I like repentance. Here is another thought, as I am writing this especially the part about being a slave or a slave owner not being alive today. I mentioned this thought to a black person.  They flat out said they disagreed. I am trying to understand what they disagreed with. I said no slave or slave owner is actually alive today.  I clarified my statement, I looked up oldest living slave on Google and came up with Sylvester Magee, born in 1841 and died in 1971 at 130 years old. If he were alive today he would be 178. What is the disagreement? If you can't explain how I am wrong, how can I deal with it? Reparation talk is just an attempt to keep the hurt alive, rather than move past it. I think this shows that this is still sensitive in our country today. I am not saying there is no racism or evil in our nation today.  We are actually the least racist nation in the world today. We fixed some great evils in the past. But I ask again how long till we are forgiven of something we didn't even do? The left keeps this stirred up when America has corrected past sins. Which America do we want, the one that holds things against us forever or the one that believes in rehabilitation and repentance and forgiveness? Why would we believe in rehabilitation for criminals and not for people that just made an error in judgment and lived a good life for 30 or 40 years? Doesn't that count for something when a criminal has lived an exemplary life inside the prison, then why should it not count outside the prison walls?  The sad part, like  Kavanaugh, many are innocent and it is just a tactic to destroy that person because they hold conservative beliefs. Since when do we all need to think exactly alike to be respected.  I think this is a good question to ask and ponder.  Which America do we really want, be careful what you choose. Why would the same people hold Bill Clinton in high esteem when his whole political career was one disgusting episode after another and yet destroy good men with a record of good service for 30 or 40 years?  How does this make any sense?  I think I would rather live in an America that believes in good people regardless of their political leaning. In an America that allows people to change and do good. I want to live in an America that believes in repentance and forgiveness. Has anyone besides me done stupid stuff when they were young? God bless, LVZ.