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 $40 trillion on the sum allegedly due blacks as a result of the oppression he claims they have suffered. In another case, a Congressman has introduced legislation to mandate reparations for slavery.
It’s a radical idea as explored on page two.
Ha ha ha. I can’t think of a single white person that feels guilty about slavery. Not one. It happened. The descendants of slaves are WAY better off than their ancestors were. Compare the living standards of any slave descendant in the US to the living standards of descendants whose ancestors remained in slave trading territories in Africa. It’s no contest.
Shut the efff up jerk! Dude has a mental disease and should seek help.
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Dream On , Homes !
You should pay into my individual account, cause you’re a douchebag!
Another$#%&!@*hole lazy moron!
Bite my$#%&!@*Dyson , you bigot
I never had a slave, never got food stamps or food, never got anything I did not work my$#%&!@*off for. I stayed in school and worked after school after begging for a job so I could buy food and clothes. When I could not get hired I started doing the job for free until the owner started paying me. I begged and worked hard to keep my job. Nothing came easy or free for me. So why should I give someone my money who is too dam lazy to get an education and work to get what they want instead of crying and trying to get my money.
LEAVE AMERICA IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT!!!
What a joke! Are the minorities going to pay into a fund to help fix and replace all of those properties and items that they have trashed and burned in their rioting? Think about that for a while!