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.
Hater garbage…
No. You blacks owe whites that much. We freed your ancestors and kept you from starving
This came up in the 1890s and the Grand Army of the Republic made up of Union vets said get lost. The Union lost an average of 77 men a day for four straight years and that was from the side working to free the slaves.
First , if this is for ,slavery .
First thing , you must prove you are a descend of a slave .
Second thing , you must find slave owners .
Third thing you must do is pay reparations to those people who , went off to war , to fight for your freedom .
Fourth thing , pay a reparation for all the cities you destroyed , during the riots .
Fifth thing ,repay all the welfare , food stamps , free medical . You have received over the years .
It would come to about “50 Trillion dollars ”
Pay up ?
What a joke!!!!
Didn’t you know Obama collected those funds from us during the 8 years in office, so you should write him and tell him the money he took was for you and your kind
That is really a stupid demand!
They owe the American people for stealing our tax money on welfare fraud and housing, and free healthcare
I am sure, I should get money back because I am native American.
Not all white people owe you jack$#%&!@*stop living in the passd dumb s**t