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In MHO the debate about reparations is the most dangerous “debate” possible.

It attacks the core foundation of the Republic - each individual is responsible for his/her actions and can not be held responsible for the acts of others - past or present.

Yes slavery is bad. But, where is there a living person who suffered through American Slavery? To give you a hint they would have to be over 150 years old. If you are talking about slavery elsewhere it is up to those nations to answer their own reparation debate.

As far as American Corporations/Companies having to pay reparations. Another false argument for the same reasons.

BTW - if we are discussing reparations shouldn’t we at least call it by its correct name - “wealth transfer to prevent racial riots”?

BTW 2 - If we are going to “transfer wealth to prevent racial riots” shouldn’t the recipients of that wealth transfer repatriate most of their bribe money to the survivors of the Union Army who died and were crippled freeing them from slavery? The same logic used in the article applies here too.

IMHO there was only one legal reparation. It was when the American Government paid pennies on the dollar to the American Citizens impression during World War II. You known the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who lost generational wealth, property, businesses, and money when the Democrats in California and DC branded all of them threats to American security in early 1942. There the reparations were paid directly to those who suffered the losses not their great-great-great-great grandchildren.

One final thought on the subject of reparations for slavery - the logical end of this argument is the reestablishment of a feudal society where your position within that society is not determined by your actions, or your fathers actions, or your grandfather’s but by an accident of birth based on where your great-great-great-great grandfather was doing on April 8, 1865.

April 8, 1865? Why that date? That was the day BEFORE Gen Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, and marked the “official” end of the Civil War and slavery in general in the Republic.