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.
They’ve been living off the taxpayers for over 50 yrs, that I know of, so I think it’s time for them to pay us back! Throughout the years I’ve heard them brag about how they didn’t have to work. Now they force business to hire them so they have nothing to$#%&!@*about.
If that is so, what do we owe the American Indian.
He still owes money on his student loans probably !
i think the blacks owe all whites 100 trillon for all the white lives that was lost
Dumb$#%&!@* a credit to his race, NOT!
No black people owe us 40 billion for all the stuff they have been getting for free , food and board, education and everything else they have taken when they riot oh and free cell phones. I don’t owe them$#%&!@*
How much do you owe yourself, rich blacks iwn black slaves!
I don’t owe blacks a damn thing, but I will pay in hot lead only.
Can’t get anymore pathetic and idiotic that that.
Why don’t idiots like this shut up. I never owned a slave and I don’t owe these people a darn thing. He should be teaching that working you can have anything you want if you work hard enough and they may like it.