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.
we owe them$#%&!@*.
I don’t owe you anything. My family never owned slaves.
blacks are OWED NOTHING. if you want something free ask the government for a free trip back to fucking Africa
Take a check, bro….
This professor sucks at math it is the blacks that need to pay back that much money because of all the entitlement programs and what it has cost through the prison and justice system
Fu
pulled that number out your$#%&!@*
BS
I dont owe black people s**t
Entitled Idiot. Tsk tsk tsk