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 $40 trillion on the sum allegedly due blacks as a result of the oppression he claims they have suffered. In another case, a Congressman has introduced legislation to mandate reparations for slavery.
It’s a radical idea as explored on page two.
Moron
This is how the democrats keep these fools voting for them they make them think one day they will get A big pay day for doing nothing they been doing this for years and years and nothing never comes you would think after so long they would wake up and see it’s never coming …..sad very sad ….
up yours jerkoff
In 1860 2000 blacks owned 20 ,000 slaves. Better figure out their descendents first. Also, all of the blacks who came to the US after the Civil War. Then of course, all of the other citizens who immigrated at a later date. My family immigrated from Italy in 1910.
I never had slaves I’m not paying$#%&!@*
My$#%&!@*IS CRAZY.
Of all this pushing from the liberal left,someone is going to push back one of these days,hopefully it does not come to that but it only takes one side to start BS that most of us abhor.
Hey Professor Doofus, concentrate your time and energy and stupidity to do some research. Slavery started in Africa, where Black’s sold blacks, their own people into Slavery.
So the color of my skin means I have to pay blacks because blacks were slaves
Slug, deport