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.
BS
nope dope
Really
When they charge their own for owning slaves they can come back an talk to me….Blacks owned slaves back then also….an some of those slaves where white…..
I got your money,now all you have to do is come and get it.be sure and tell everyone by.
I owe them nothing I did nothing to them so get a life
That makes us all even for all we have paid to welfare since Johnson gave away the world.
P**S OFF MORON LIBTARD!!! WE owe YOU NOTHING!!!!!!!!
How much have we already paid through Government programs?
Black people that believe this can kiss my WHITE$#%&!@*!!!!