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.
Baltimore has a population without brains.
We don’t owe you JACK$#%&!@*
Fire him!
We owe you nothing !!!!!!!
And what rock did you crawl out from?
He needs to go back to math class and History class!
How much do they owe the Indians.? THEY WOULD COME FIRST, I OWE YOU NOTHIBG IDIOT.
W owe you nothing because our ancestors did not use slaves!
They all want what the white man has fo sho,sorry bout yo luck pal
Nothing