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.
Always wanting something for nothing, nobody alive today owns slaves and no blacks have been slaves since 1864.
Were you ever a slave ? Or just a free loader ,crybaby
I don’t owe you$#%&!@* Really sick of people like you.
Dream on punk ass
You stupid SOB
You do know its blacks that sold blacks into slavery right
Jeff Stevens, I agree.
Can we subtract all the welfare and subsidies they’ve soaked us out of pretty please with some crack cocaine on top?
1860 was the height of slavery in this country. 1.6 percent of population had slaves. None are living today. So 98.4 percent who never had a thing to do with slaves in their entire heritage owe for the 1.6 ??? Did you also know of this 1.6 percent some were black .. A little history lesson for the reparation crowd.
He’s no professor just another idiot