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.
Smfs
Blacks should pay whites for giving them their freedom
Over my dead body
We have we pay for welfare every week out of our checks
No
Hey Dyson, go jump in a lake
I don’t know you s**t
We have been paying into that fund all my life,we call it welfare,food stamps, and section eight.
And how is anyone alive today affected by slavery?
No blacks like Jackson and Sharpton that have been ripping off blacks for decades, as well as the useless democrat party for enslaving blacks in the ghetto, which is the new plantation. My ancestors had nothing to do with slavery, weren’t even in the country. That’s like blaming the slaves for not paying for passage, on the boats that brought them here. That makes as much sense.