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.
A professor of what? Idiotology? What a retard!
You. Are. So. Full. C**p
White people don’t owe anybody anything. Grow up and stop being a little$#%&!@* Deal with it.
NO we don’t.
“White People” don’t owe you jack sh*t. I’m white and I had nothing to do with your slavery.
White people owe you nothing you useless asshole
Oh for pity’s sake . So stupid
White people don’t OU C**p !!!
Not a cent. Get a job
No I think it’s the other way around I think you black people need to pay us for all the welfare we pay you get off the pot and go to work