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.
And tjats a nickel too much..a haypenny would do
We don’t owe you$#%&!@*
Hey big boy, why don’t you come and try to collect my share? I’d be glad to give it to you.
They got it in welfare payments and ebt cards
How many hundred of thousand whites died to free the black slaves? How much money has been dumped into the inner cities without a pay back? I don’t think whites owe you a penny
YOU BUNCH OF LAZY FREELOANING PIECES OF PIGSHIT HAVE COLLECTED MORE THAN THAT IN WELFARE AND FOODSTAMPS OVER THE PAST 70 YEARS!!!! GO GET A FUCKING JOB AND STOP BEGGING FOR FREE$#%&!@*!!!!!
Hahaha. You’re a fu*king MORON. Get it from the tribes in Africa that sold you ancestors into slavery. You’re not getting one f…… cent from me.
Ha don’t think so!lol
You owe the people who freed you 2 trillion dollars.(civil war)
The black slave owners owe you your money.
All that I owe anyone is a hello,a smile and the time of day. I freely share this with all colors .