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.
Why for freeing slaves, remember it was blacks who sold blacks into slavery, and the first slave owner in America was a black man. And all the white people who died fighting to free the slaves, and the underground railroad. All without a thank you, and all you want is free money , free food and housing, are the democrats keeping you a slave? Get a job and pay for all the people with their hands out for your money, .
F**k you!
One simple solution. Everything you have belonged to the Native Americans. Give it back get on a boat and head for Europe or Africa or where ever.
So how much do the tribe leaders in Africa owe them seeing it was the black leaders of other tribes that sold them to the Portuguese to begin with or hasn’t he read his history books it all started with your own people and is still happening in Africa blacks are their own worst enemy they kill each other by the dozens in Chicago every day
I don’t owe you nothin
YOU GOT RIPPED OFF BY HILLARY AND OBAMA. GET LOST !!
Get a job you lazy$#%&!@*!!!
Sorry we owe you nothing.
Please over decades you received that and more get a job
And they owe us $80 trillion, so..