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 $40 trillion on the sum allegedly due blacks as a result of the oppression he claims they have suffered. In another case, a Congressman has introduced legislation to mandate reparations for slavery.
It’s a radical idea as explored on page two.
When the blacks do. Considering they owned more blacks then white people did.
and all blacks people should pay reparation to all of the native americans that they helped kill off if you want to play that game.and maybe you people should be fighting for all the Africans that are being sold right now for 500 dollars into the muslims slave trade
Nope
Does this man have any dignity left. How,long will he keep begging.
What about the blacks that owned slaves?
By the count of slave owners, more blacks owned slaves and would go to fields and pick cotton and or picked the food.
So you need to go on line and read the truth about who owned slaves, get the black slave owners to pay you, the so called white already fought to free you with more that a million Union forces dieing for you to be free.
Professor of what?$#%&!@*colored economics of then jungle he came from
We do it’s called welfare get a jpb
Yes its called welfare
This is the true entitlement mentality that permeates so much of our society today
idiot