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.
No one in my family tree was in America before 1870 so i’m exempt. But 620000 soldiers died in the Civil War ending slavery so maybe the blacks should pay reparations for all those deaths………?
Hold you breath until someone calls you about it
How about those blacks whose ancestors were slave owners? And whites whose families never owned slaves? And blacks and whites whose ancestors came to this country after slavery. And what of middle easterners and others whose people still own slaves?
This idea is so stupid on every level!
We already pay into its called welfare that’s when people that work and own business and money is taken from them and given to those that don’t work is that what he means or does he want those same people to give even more to the people that don’t work.
If white people actually PAID these reparations, which we WILL NOT, blacks would continue making ridiculous demands! Whites of today DO NOT LIKE what happened to the black people in the past. It was an injustice of the worst kind! I don’t know how you right something like that; however, a monetary payment is not the answer. We need to go forward and make sure that the black race receives their chance for everything available to all of us.
And on the other side you have
You are crazy I don’t owe you anything
Yea Right I’ll get my checkbook.NOT
How much white do you have in your line. None of you are africans your fakes.
ANOTHER BLACK RACIST ASSHOLE