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.
Generations of welfare, and special grants, paid in full professor
hold your breath till you get pos
No one owes you squat get a job and earn like the rest of us do
Sorry I don’t owe u anything but love
Pay with Confederate dollars.
OK I’m convinced, where do I send my penny.
we owe you nothing that hasn’t already been paid for in blood and welfare checks
WHAT DOES HE TEACH???? OH—HATRED!!!!!!
Nope you us money.
How many zeroes in that figure Prof? Jimmy