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.
Will you take an IOU-S
How much do the black slave owners owe the black ppl? Just curious cause they owned slaves also!
No reparation for you. Go get a job!
Blacks owe Me 100 Trillion …. There we’ll call it even !
Sorry I was not living in the Civic War
I don’t owe you or any black anything.
No we do not. Get a job like the rest of us.
I owe you a kick in the$#%&!@*
What a moron
Good luck collecting