In a movement reminiscent of the affirmative action debates in the 1970’s, there exists today demands that white Americans pay reparations to African-Americans for centuries of black slavery as well as oppression that persisted even after slavery was abolished in American 150 years ago.
One difference between the two is that while affirmative action required that business and educational institutions take specific actions to to expand the pool of minorities applying for jobs and offer them preferential treatment in the hiring process, the reparations movement would demand that white Americans set aside a portion of their money to be used as direct payment to minorities as compensation for alleged damages they have suffered because of their race.
One African-American professor has gone so far as to place a value of $40 trillion on the sum allegedly due blacks as a result of the oppression he claims they have suffered. In another case, a Congressman has introduced legislation to mandate reparations for slavery.
It’s a radical idea as explored on page two.
Good luck with that. Oh and go$#%&!@*yourself ok
Blacks should just get their sh*t together. Now there is something novel….
F**k you Dyson, you racist$#%&!@*
How about the blacks paying reparations to the white Union soldiers for fighting the south to free the slaves?
No I don’t think so!!!
No person currently living is responsible for this$#%&!@* Get this Jesse Jackson liberal$#%&!@*off the airwave and the net so there isn’t another Toyota problem which is tantamount to extortion.$#%&!@*you$#%&!@*
Having been a victim of affirmative action I believe all this is BS! People don’t want equality! They want special treatment! Sorry but the things I’ve worked hard for are mine! I won’t be forced to give anything to anyone! I give away plenty but I choose who gets it!
F**e news. This guy is a racist.
Racist b******t, native Indian are the ones who need to be given some land that we can not take or control or use or abuse
If slaves had never been captured and ‘sold’ by their black brethren in Africa, those here today would NOT be here. They would be in Africa starving with the rest of their tribesman who’ve as yet failed to find their way to the 21st century. I’d say that instead of whining about reparations they should be thankfully kissing the ground in this ‘free’ country where they have the opportunity to succeed in anything if they try.