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.
You need to look at your fellow black man they were the first slaves the black man gave black men away or sold them as slaves sorry to tell you but the white man wasn’t the first one who made a Slave
do not owe you$#%&!@*cupcake work for it like the rest of it you graduate from school of racism
How long has he personally been enslaved?
Affirmative Action Professor leftist?
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They are still slaves in Africa!!
you want money???? go work for it, you owe us!!!
Moron
SAYS ….WHITE PEOPLE ARE SMARTER AND NEED TO RUN THINGS!
Oh yeah ….well here’s my two cents worth….give it to the native Americans.