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.
Get out & work for yours .
You owe everyone an apology dumbass
you are politely full of s**t
How does The Prof know anything . I bet he makes more then we do. What’s he going to give. My husband & I didn’t have money to get a degree – we worked for everything we have.
If this idiot thought there is 40T to pay them what then would happen to the nation. We are over 120T in debt now. Shows to go ya what kind of people grace the hall of universities …..whn
Try 660,000 souls…..whn
Put it on my tab,$#%&!@*
Smoking crack?
Why?
The check is in the mail….