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.
Get off your “you owe me” kick!! So tired of these pathetic people!!!
40 TRILLION…. ILL WRITE YOU A CHECK……..FOR FOUR CENTS ASSHOLE
Can I pay in Monopoly money
Lol
Nah.
Love these stupid remarks from so-called educated people. Makes my day it give me some thing to laugh about
Go ahead, you first.
That crack is a powerful drug.
F**e just trying to divide the country
Wrong. Go back to Africa and get reparations from the BLACKS who enslaved you then SOLD you in black run slave markets. What? Those $#%&!@*holes” don’t have a dime? Well, whose fault is that? Blacks have run them for thousands of years. Must be a connection there, eh?
Tough$#%&!@* I never owned a slave. Plus you never were one. Go pick some cotton.