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.
Good luck! We don’t owe you anything, especially the republicans who fought against slavery! Being a democrat makes you a supporter of slavery! How you cannot know that as a professor is beyond me!
Professor of idiotsey.
I’d love to see the Evidence!
Obviously talking about the Democrats probably owned his relatives as slaves.
I don’t owe any of you anything and that’s what you’ll get. Nothing!
Two word Toby pick more cotton
You are dumb to
Checks in the mail.
Dont owo you a fuckin thing you piece of s**t
We don’t owe you$#%&!@*