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.
What about all the welfare food stamps free education free medical and everything else has been collected since the 50s. Apparently he hasn’t the mind to figure that out.
PAID IN FULL 1865!
How you figure that?
THE PEOPLE THAT OWE YOU ARE IN THE GRAVY YARD !!!!!!!!!!!!
He can KISS my lily white$#%&!@*from here toeternity and he won’t get a dime from me.
Ha Ha Ha! These idiots are kidding them selves!
Try to collect–the people who committed the offenses are long dead. Good Luck–don’t let the shovel hit you in the face when go to rob the graves.
Wrong , no one owes you a freakin thing
Good Luck with That HOMESLICE .DONT AXE ME…
So, people that aren’t alive today that had slaves (VERY SMALL % of the population), makes it OK for payment to decedents of those slaves (which we’d need to see the actual DNA trail) that were never a slave to get money for that hardship?