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.
keep dreaming dummie
How do you figure that , first slave owners were there own people they were traded for other goods first with the Spanish , someone needs a history lesson.
The war was not about slavery ,it was about nothern aggression Lincoln brought that part in , most slaves were in the north and ones that were not were paid so weak they felt like one , in the south if a person had a lot of money they had slaves to work there fields very few were treted bad most owners gave them a home they kept there family together , but very few were treted bad . If you own a new car you take care of it wright . When you see a new car that looks like$#%&!@*well one in a thousands not that is the type they would mistreat slaves . Now you have it .take a history lesson .
will settle for a Bucket of Chicken
Amen
He should get a real job, rather than pretending to be an educator. What we owe Commies like this guy is a one way trip to be air dropped over North Korea next week. Bundle up Bubba, it’s gonna be cold!
Good luck collecting, dumbass.
Come try to collect
Not worthy of comment
Good luck with that snowflake. But if you REALLY cared about them you’d quit the pity party, stop singing the somebody did somebody wrong song, and tell them instead of living in the past, focus on the future and do everything they possibly can to improve their lot in life themselves instead of expecting someone else to do it. That’s each of our responsibility regardless of who we are.