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.
Ok..tell me where to send my dollar a month for the rest of my life?….and while we’re at it how about compensating the Europeans for all the shot the British did to them…or the scrap the Japanese did to the Chinese……oooohh…fucking get a life!
Ok,DONE! All those years of welfare! Done,paid in full!
I think the radical black people owe me some work to have been putting up with this b******t
Come and take it. I dare you.
Hell no
For what? How about paying back all the welfare for the last century. I think you’ll find you owe money. Dumb$#%&!@*
He will have to see Obama about that, he printed all the money for them ,but kelp it himself,so now he will have to. Take it up with our past president Obama now he has all the money.
My family fought for the Connecticut militia to free the slaves
Offset it against the 118 trillion they took in welfare
Not in this lifetime, you people have already took enough from us and didn’t have to go to work, just walk to mailbox for check. Must be nice