There’s a growing demand coming from the fringe — well, let’s hope it’s the fringe — demanding reparations for sufferings caused by slavery in America as well as for the sufferings, primarily of African-Americans, in the years since its abolition. It’s a radical idea that cannot be supported economically or ideologically.
Before going further, it must be stated emphatically that the practice of slavery is abhorrent. That it occurred in America is a stain on our history. That it occurred throughout the world for millennia, is a stain on humanity. No amount of words will remove the fact that this inhumane practice has been part of the human condition. Those who worked for its abolition deserve our admiration and gratitude.
However, demands for trillions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of those who suffered under slavery in America in not supportable. More on page two.
I don’t owe to no one, but myself . I’m not giving my hard earn money to stupid thinking idiots !
Fu jig
I don’t owe you a damn thing. I find it hard to believe your an actual professor, cause you are one dumb mother fucker!
Pathetic Moron!
Just pay back all you were ever given as handouts first!!
I identify as a person of color. So no.
Ha,ha,ha,ha!
Hey Baltimore Professor…..F*** YOU!! Got it, junior?
A-DUH
I’m to guess it’s because of lost wages from picking cotton. Funny that machines have been doing that for over 50 years. Maybe he is referring to the blacks of Africa that have been oppressed since the being of time.