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.
For someone who’s supposed to be educated, you already know this debt was paid long ago to the rightful people!! Not this generation of do nothings!! But destroy the community’s they live in!!
What an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not this white person, idiot!!!
you all get welfare. lots of it. so there. you got your reparation. now help fight for the American Indian’s that got there land taken away and were hunted down like dogs and killed. why don’t you help them. that’s right it’s all about you.
To Mr. Dyson…f*ck you. My ancestors were Irish miners. They did not own slaves and while they may have been very prejudiced at the time, that attitude has pretty much been bred out of their descendants. No one in my family has ever been on welfare or food stamps. They got by on what they earned. So, no. No reparations for all these people who just want handouts.
Suck it
LIAR
While I approve of MLK, and the things he did for those of color, I disapprove of what those who are in command of the movement, and I think all of the statues and so forth of the civil rights movement should be dismantled because they offend me, and all of my relatives.
Just a prejudice man of color. Oh ya it’s only black lives that matter.