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.
Another idiot affirmative action professor.
You already took more than that with welfare, affirmative action, and theft
Stupid bastard
Crazy, go to another country and see how well you live!
Bluntly I don’t owe anybody anything except Barclay/ Juniper bank.
You’re a total idiot
Cool! Let every living pre-Emancipation Proclamation slave owner pay this restitution directly to every living pre-Emancipation Proclamation slave. Of course, there are no living people from this time period, and haven’t been for quite some time. So unless you were a slave, and are well over 150 years old now, stop playing the victim, and STFU!
I agree Thomas L
Awe shut up already you whiny PUTZ
Ya right