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.
A Baltimore dipshit
up yours a hole.
Black people owe white people there lives
Asshole!
How can this guy be so stupid and still be a professor teaching our youth
Some kind of stupid ya think,
YOU ARE NOT OWED WHAT YOU DON’T EARN!
Let us go with that figure of 40 trillion dollars !
For reparations ?
First : you must prove you are a descendent of a slave . Blacks who arrived after 1862 , can not be counted .
Second : you must collect reparation from slave owners , and those who fought to keep slavery alive . Mostly democrats ! You can not expect people who immigrated here after 1870 !
Third : you must pay restitution to the decedents of all those who died , or were wounded , trying to free you !
Forth : you must pay reparations for all the cites you burned down during your riots . Starting in the sixties ?
Fifth : you must pay back , welfare , food stamps , free medical , and free school ( Peil Grants ) !
That should come to about fifty trillion dollars !
Pay up !
Don’t owe you sh$t! Alwaywanting something for nothing!!!
How much success would people of color have if white people stopped buying sports and movie tickets albums and concert tickets shoping in there businesses? I wonder what they would do if whites just stopped?