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.
let me get my checkbook…
No your own race owes you for slavery for selling you
WELL GUESS WHAT WE DON’T OWE YOU A FUCKEN THING, SO TO HELL WITH YOU’.
I read these headlines and they are so ridiculous. I don’t want to waste the time thinking about such stupidity and hatred so I won’t even bother reading the article. People can’t be so stupid to believe that blacks actually believe that.
Bahaaaaa
I OWE YOU S**T
Mike Thompson, not to mention all the white lives and resources that were spent freeing them
They owe you nothing.
We don’t owe you s**t, A$$H@£€!
Sorry for your ancesters pain. I don”t understand how this translates to a claim for monetary reparations…other than media attention and resulting monetary gain.