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.
This guy needs a job he can handle: cotton picking
FOR WHAT???? Hey dude, we can counter sue you as an individual for bashing whites. THAT IS CALLED RACISM AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE. AND IT WILL STICK IN COURT.
Not really. Get a job.
Got some lead for you
No I think all you blacks owe us 55 trillion plus interest!!
Nobody owes you anything except for what you’ve earned on your own merits!
You need to sue the people in Africa who sold your families
He’s so full of s*** his eyes are brown.
Come get it
Complete idiot