There’s a growing demand coming from the fringe — well, let’s hope it’s the fringe — demanding reparations for sufferings caused by slavery in America as well as for the sufferings, primarily of African-Americans, in the years since its abolition. It’s a radical idea that cannot be supported economically or ideologically.
Before going further, it must be stated emphatically that the practice of slavery is abhorrent. That it occurred in America is a stain on our history. That it occurred throughout the world for millennia, is a stain on humanity. No amount of words will remove the fact that this inhumane practice has been part of the human condition. Those who worked for its abolition deserve our admiration and gratitude.
However, demands for trillions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of those who suffered under slavery in America in not supportable. More on page two.
Good luck getting it from me
No we don’t .
S**t head !
YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE
40 acres and a mule or Africa.
Why don’t you pack your fucking bags and leave
How about money to citizens of chicago for having to live in a war zone?
Send that invoice to the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow and eugenics; the Democrats.
come knock on my door and i will give you your share in warm lead
Nope