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.
MORON!
Um no we ow u nothing that was something that happened over a 100 years ago and it that’s the case well u all don’t work for anything and were paying for u anyways with the taxed money we make
He is to full of hate to think straight!
Hey ads up all the welfare that’s been paid for the past 70 years. It’s paid for oh yes add the medical expenses as well.
White people owe nothing to blacks. This country was not built on the back of slaves. A war settled this in the 1860’s. Get off your lazy$#%&!@*pay attention in school and get a job. Hello. I’ll debate you calmly on this
It is idiots like this that teach our kids – we own you nothing.
hold your breath till you get you pos
Start getting intron Africa … their the ones who captured and sold you then ask yourself why didn’t we go back when you gained your freedom
Get it from the toads that captured and sold you morons
We don’t owe you jack s_ t. I never owned saves you were never a slave, so stop the nonsense and get a job!