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.
How much to return to sender?
We owe you nothing..
I and WE owe YOU NOTHING !!!!!!
Where do they keep coming up with the so called professors .
And where did enslavement of blacks begin, in Africa where blacks sold other blacks into$#%&!@* And where would be reparations for whites? First slaveys in this country were white. And doing your research, first registered owner of black slaves was himself a black business owner, what do we do with that?
They done got whacked on crack. They be trppin man lol
We will pay with lead
Tired of this BS GET A JOB!
I don’t owe blacks$#%&!@*!!! GFY!!
I do not owe you a damn thing you stupid person. If anything you owe me for all the welfare your kind has stole from the white race, so kiss my$#%&!@*