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.
Pay the ones that want it and send them back were they came from.
Not a dime!
For a so-called professor you have a lot of stupid in you.
Lmao
I think we owe this professor 40 million kicks in the ass
Wonder if he would take a check. No well good luck with that.
I don’t owe u a fuckin thing try 2 get it
Yes , and this is teaching you’re kids. This is why we have so many liberal snowflake. Another idiot teaching kids!
Their own people sold them to keep from starving. We could just not pay and they can go back where they come from. I don’t owe nothing. Give them a free ticket back to Africa and see how long they live.
Got them cheap, and their own kind sold them!