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.
Really
That man has lost his mind
Drop dead you stupid mother fucker!!
Long since collected
Hey, cupcake, blacks and Indians owned slaves too. Also, blacks enslaved blacks and sold them into slavery in Africa. Who you going to demand reparations from? Only a tiny percent of the population in the New World owned slaves. Good luck. Democrats already gave you the Welfare Plantation.
So full of bs
come get it if you want it so bad!
College is becoming increasingly a waste of time and money and this guy proves it.
Professor, he must have a degree in racism and welfare abuse!
You got it backwards welfare blacks owe us white working people 80 trillion in funds we gave them since 1952