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.
I don’t owe them$#%&!@*
Generations of welfare, food stamps, education grants, welfare that no one else could get.
Paid in friggin FULL !
Dumbazz
F**k off
White people owe you nothing!
Dont owe you anything.
Not so. We don’t owe you nothing.
Un…the check is in the mail, brother.
for what
No, Muslims do. The dominant black tribes in Africa sold the Concord black tribes in Africa to the Muslim slave Traders. If there were no Muslims slave Traders there would have been no slaves in the United States. You are speaking of treating the symptom not the cause. Muslims and dominant tribes in Africa selling off their conquered are the cause.
Another got his doctorate in a Crackerjack Box, Lib/Dem, fool..