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.
we owe you zero ,now if you and yours want to give back all you have taken we would be greatfull!
Most of these so called professor can’t fine their way home .we should be helping the American Indians not the blacks.
No way
Take a check????
Checks been mailed to somewhere but i dont where
Professor of ignorance. Bet he can’t even spell professor.
No your forefathers owe you for selling you to blacks as well as whites in the United States. Go back and get your money out of them.
Come get motherfuckers
Creep! I don’t owe you one thing.
Collect it from those that have kept you slaves, the Democrats.