I dispute that. If it were not for history books, blacks would never have known they were slaves. Discrimination has essentially ended over 50 years ago. Yet, today Blacks are significatly behind economically, educationally and based upon nationally standardized testing, they are not measuring up while in elementary school. So, instead of blaming 'Whitey' for everything that has gone wrong, why not look within?
Granted, Blacks were abused. No one is disputing that, but let's ask another question. Are the blacks in the USA better off today than the ones left behind? What about their countrymen who hunted them, and sold them into slavery? What about the fact that this behavior is still going on today?
Paying everyone who is black money, by stealing the money from people who are white is wrong. For example, a significant number of caucasion (ie. whitey) people immigrated to the USA after the civil war. Also, a great deal of blacks have arrived well after slavery was eliminated. So, unless you can show me a living slave, and a living slave owner; IMHO this is nothing more than a shakedown ploy put forth by those who feel that they are entitled to money and property because they are too lazy or uneducated to earn it like everyone else.
While we're at it, let's not forget those who came to America before 1860, who rejected slavery and fought the Civil War to abolish it. There were 646,392 casulaties on the Union side alone, including 140,414 battle deaths. They made the ultimate sacrifice so slaves could go free at a time when slavery was still practiced worldwide, as it still is in Sudan and elsewhere today -- not that certain Democrat leaders ever talk about solving today's problem.
Thus reparations is an absurd idea that started with law suits over slave labor during WWII, and has led to other absurdities as illustrated by the following recent story:
LESSONS OF 'THE SIMPLE LIFE'
New York Post ^ | December 5, 2003 | MARK GOLDBLATT
Posted on 12/05/2003 8:33:42 AM EST by OESY
FOX'S new reality series, "The Simple Life," premiered Tuesday. The show follows the misadventures of socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as they "rough it" for a month on an Arkansas farm - plucking chickens, killing bugs and (gasp!) sharing a single bathroom with their hosts, the Leding Family. The show is intended to highlight, in a less than subtle way, the rural decency of the Ledings by contrasting them with the absurdly pampered big city blonds.
But the show also highlights another absurdity. Nicole Ritchie is the daughter of singer Lionel Ritchie - so, even though she grew up in a world of Gucci bags and Manolo Blahnik spike heels, designer perfumes and stretch limos, she counts as African-American for the purposes of affirmative action.
So if she and Justin Leding, the hardworking teenage son of the farm family, ever compete for admission to college, Nicole will be granted special consideration because of the otherwise insurmountable hardships visited upon her ancestors.
Who said America is no longer the land of opportunity?