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 the blacks owe the white 50 trillion for the lives sacrificed getting them freed from slavery
No way, I didn’t have slaves, I don’t owe you anything, go to work.
I’m Irish my ancestors were slaves before the blacks were I don’t think I’m entitled to anything. I’ve worked for what I got.
You are a fool dude and you don’t know your facts. This post is old as hell too!!
Actually WHITES are the ones that’s owned…been supporting some of these dead beats all their life. This one has hit his head on something…MORON !
get your ugly$#%&!@*to work if you want money .
I don’t owe you nothing your own chiefs sold you people to be brought here
Get a life no one is alive that was a slave
I don’t owe them nothing I’ve done nothing
Can we pay in lead?