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.
Can you spell W..E..L..F..A..R..E? How about Affirmative Action?
You pay me for listening to the C**P you dish out
Another loonie.
WE have! It’s called welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc!
Why the crooked politicians would just keep it for themselves.
Hmmmm…..I pay taxes and have been doing so since I started working at age 15. Those taxes have supported an ever growing welfare state that has no end in sight. Sounds like reparations to me.
Let them get off their lazy asses and earn it !!
Why do you not attack the African countries that still sell people into slavery today? Not to mention the Muslims who want to enslave everyone!
We should all say a big thank you to then president Johnson and his democratic buddies for getting all this we owe them something c**p started! Equal rights needs to get back to meaning just that, equal! Equal opportunity to earn and achieve, not guaranteed results. No on today owes anything for the actions of others in the past!
How ignorant