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.
I don’t owe a black or any color a D thing
RACIST
I figure I don’t owe you s**t
No they don’t.
he is about as dumb as they come!!
I don’t owe you$#%&!@*black boy
We owe u nothing you earn your as I do even if I’m disabled
Do not hold your breath
Go back to school moron
We owe you a boat trip to Africa.