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.
How about you take the meaning of my middle finger and go home?
What gives you the idea that you are owed anything? Your ancestors were brought here where they were treated better than by their leaders in Africa, fed well, and made freee people, but for some r eason don’t believe they should have had to work for what they want now !
Good luck with that
the obama’s took it all in 8 years….sorry buddy, your barking up the wrong tree.
Probably owe government half that
I don’t owe you diddly squat. Let that sink in.
Would love to put him/ this stuff to rest….
go to south africa……i heard they are giving money away to the blacks……..solves both problems.
we have kids being stolen to be used as sex slaves and he is worried about something that happened 100 years ago……….how about dealing with the REAL slavery we have now……….those kids are killed…….not fed and given homes.
Isn’t math a forbidden action