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.
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Another idiot!
Try digging that 40 trillion out your$#%&!@*professor. You’ll have more success than trying to get it from me!
Another liberal pos wanting something for free. Just another slave of the Democratic Party.
Always looking for a handout!!
Gosh no wondet kids today are so ignorance. They got mentally retarded professors teaching them
We owe you crooks nothing .i worked my entire life and paid taxes and now SS which I am still paying for. Where is your payment of all the welfare, food stamps ,phones , housing etc. are you kidding ! You owe us all a living now so pay it all up to the white people who laid out the money!
Yeah right Take a really big Bresth and Hold it until your able to collect.
We are paying them back in welfare
These are the assholes teaching our kids?