There are demands that are coming, frequently from those in academia, for the United States to make payments in the form of reparations to the descendants of slaves. Lawrence Brown, an assistant professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, has been quite vocal in offering his beliefs on this matter, stating that “White People Should Deposit Their Unearned Wealth In Black Accounts.” He has company in Black Lives Matter leader Ashleigh Shackelford who is singing a very similar tune.
This is an absurd notion that could be dismissed on several grounds:
- It assumes “white people” today are responsible for the sins of their fathers — and if not all “white people” in America today are responsible, that it is possible to identify the ones who are — something that is clearly impossible to do.
- It assumes that “white people” have “unearned wealth” — whatever that is — to deposit into the accounts of African Americans.
- It assumes that the extent of the alleged damages to African-Americans can be quantified.
- It assumes that there exists the $40 trillion that Mr. Brown wants transferred to African-Americans in the form of reparations. This is an amount approximately equal to twice the size of our national debt.
- It ignores the horrible atrocities that have been perpetrated on peoples of many races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds over millennia for whom no such reparations were made or will ever be made.
- It assumes a world that simply does not exist.
On the next page you can see the rather entertaining way he has broken it all down:
We owe you NOTHING!!!
The white man didn’t sell the African man. Your African man sold their own into slavery. Read your history.
Don’t owe you anything. You owe me. I’m native American.
I totally agree with you, that’s the problem they think everybody owes them.
Maybe this “learned” professor should crack a book and read up on the Zulu Nation and discover what Shaka Zulu did with the remnants of his defeated enemies. It has something to do with the Dutch slave traders and the southern colonies in the New World. It’s a good read.
Not all white people owned slaves. Need a lot of time to trace down all those that did. Oh, and I don’t owe you s**t.
Well my ancestors never owned slaves as a matter of fact they fought to free them….my family tree shows a long history of hard working Americans who came here from Spain and Ireland to have a better life. They worked hard,went to Church and instilled Morales and values in their children which have been carried thru from generation to generation…..and continue on to this day….We are proud of America and the freedoms and opportunities we have in this country….We were taught if you work hard you can achieve anything…..I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth and my family was not wealthy we just got by…but I know from personal experience if you want something bad enough you’ll find a way to get it ….instead of trying to get something that was never owed to you……..self esteem and pride are wonderful attributes and mean so much more when finally get what you worked for.
Fist; he needs to explain what unearned income is. If I actually have some of it; I will gladly give it up if it would make this hostility go away.
Gee, maybe both sets of grandparents came from the old world after slavery in the USA was all done… outlawed, over! Maybe none of the countries that they came from were involved in slavery of anyone… at all! But EVERY working person in this nation has been a taxed wage slave supporting those with needs and those who just want to take the handout, for just as long as they’ve been working. How is THAT right? Perhaps those overtaxed WORKERS are owed by those who don’t produce anything except more bills, might that be possible?