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.
KMA
Moron
Take your reparations talk and stick it.
F.U. GET A JOB BITCH
He’s not very bright! SLAVERY started with BLACK PEOPLE AND THE FRENCH
Welfare has paid them plenty
NONE OF MY PEOPLE ON MY MOTHERS SIDE OR MY FATHERS SIDE EVER HAD SLAVES..
BLACK PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN THE FIRST SLAVES WHERE IN OUR COUNTRY. . IRISH WERE SLAVES WERE TREATED SO MUCH WORSE THAN THE BLACK. BALTIMORE PROFESSOR READ UP ON THE REAL SLAVES. MY GRAND FATHER WAS IRISH, HE WAS NEVER A SLAVE. THAT WAS LONG BEFORE BEFORE HE WAS BORN. HE WAS A EDUCATED MAN. WHY DONT YOU BLACKS GET EDUCATED AND STOP CRYING OVER WHAT YOUR FORE FATHERS WENT THROUGH. MINE WENT THRU CIVIL WARE. AND YES THEY DID FIGHT ALONE WITH BLACKS. THE ONES THAT DID NOT RUN TO THE NORTH. NOW THE NORTH IS A MELTING POT OF EVERY THING IN THE WORLD. THANK GOD I HAVE THE SENSE TO LIVE IN THE SOUTH.
This is two years old. But I knew the guy growing up. Seems to be a racist nowadays.
ZING!!