[Snuffington]

These kinds of remarks make African Americans look like a bunch of operators trying to hustle our way into making an easy buck out of a national tragedy.

Gee, ya think?

Not all African Americans though. Just those who keep yammering on like this: "Tillman and other reparations activists rightly argue that America was built on the backs of black slaves."

America was built on the backs of generations of hard-working Americans of all backgrounds. Pretending slaves did all the building while the rest of America sat back and watched is simply a more genteel version of Tillman's silly statements.

[sharkhawk]

Slavery actually holds back an economy. The North was able to defeat the South because of a strong industrial economy, while the South was based on making money from agriculture. Places like Haiti should be the powerhouses of the world becuase their entire economies in the 18th and 19th centuries revolved around slavery.

[LibertarianInExile]

Patronizing Liberal "her heart is in the right place since we ALL agree with her view if not her method" bump.