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.
None of you and none of us was alive at that Time so it’s all bs ! And all the years you all got welfare and food stamps, and free phones and free housing you owe us money!
White people to dumb$#%&!@*racist professor. GFY.
We owe you nothing!
He is stupid. No one today owns slaves.
They be some awful ignant perfessers out there. (Misspelling intentional)
He just came up with that figure because that’s probably what the total of the black student loan debt is.
Then go work at a “white-owned” company to get your $$$$$.
I have some lead
I wouldn’t give you $40. Go to work like I did and earn your money. Nobody alive today ever owned a slave or their grandparents, great grandparents or great-great grandparents. Don’t try to punish the people living today for those of years ago. If that is the case then those of us who are ancestors of Native American Indians want our land back. See how stupid that sounds.
You forgot to carry the 1.