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.
Nobody alive today owes you c**p!!
Ha ha ha!
Professor of what. …..revenge…hate…hey youall listen to me I got a book to sell.
I agree 100 percent with you.
Since a black man owned the first slaves in the US, blacks owe some white people money! The first slaves were white, owned by Anthony Johnson, a black man!
Checks in the mail, you can pick it up when you get your food stamps!
Already paid, in the form of transfer payments from the producers in society to the non-producers, since the “Great Society” program of the 1960s. So how have you spent it? Hmmmmm?
You are a clueless stupid$#%&!@*ignorant brainless RACIST. Blacks owe me for taking my promotions and pay raises for the last 55yrs. yrs. With illegal affirmative action and quotas pay all whites back.
Nice wish genius
Idiot