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 $40 trillion on the sum allegedly due blacks as a result of the oppression he claims they have suffered. In another case, a Congressman has introduced legislation to mandate reparations for slavery.
It’s a radical idea as explored on page two.
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With all due respect..$#%&!@*YOU professor Dyson.
no we should not pay …
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If anything the blacks owe us reparations. At least they got out of the African hell hole. Now they have every freedom imaginable and more due to all their whining and crying that all the white people treat them so horribly. Yea right. Get a job and pay your own way. You’ll never get a dime from this person.
I have two words for this$#%&!@*$#%&!@*you”
These liberal brainwashers, under the guise of being professors, are destroying the foundations of our universities and the lives of our children. People like Dyson need to be fired and banned from spreading their c**p.
Someone needs to teach this professor about the white slavery in America.
We have been…it’s called welfare
not in my lifetime