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.
OK it’s in the mail…. Just sit back and wait on it.
Blacks owe whites their freedom .
BLACK Baltimore Professor !!! As usual , want free stuff .
That guy’s just say ignorant they need to pay back all the welfare and food stamps they’ve collected over the years
COME AN GET IT IF YOUR BRAVE ENOUGHT
Here take some of that generational welfare money and educate yourself first, and learn some real history…
Who hires lunatics like him to brainwash college kids? This man is a shameless waste of time and effort. Show him the door.
Ignorance and this is a so called professor of what (Lame Brains ).
Do you think that none of your tax money goes to Baltimore?
Well you all got that threw our free systems for years, BEEN WELL OVERPAID, Time to refill the pot you drained.