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.
Blacks need to pay whites for ending slavery you moron
Let’s count the billions spent on them as welfare recipients and call it even
CRAZY, and this is why college students are so screwed up. Their teachers don’t even know AMERICAN History or they would know blacks sold blacks and more Black’s owned slaves than whites. Every race at some point in time has been placed into slavery. Muslims still have black slaves. Don’t take my word look it up for yourself, it’s called history. There have been no slaves in AMERICA since PRESIDENT Abe Lincoln. Get over it.
I’m guessing some of my taxes are already being funneled in that direction. Kiss off!
What will the blavks pay into since they owned almost as many slaves
Blacks owns slaves too, but apparently they are not included in this grand scheme by professor Dyson. Moron.
Lol
That was then. This is now.
You are full of s**t.
My ancestors were not even in America when slavery was legal–were Dyson’s?