[Aquinasfan]

Reparations would harm people who never owned slaves and reward people who never were slaves.

That's true. And the alternative is never compensating slaves and their descendants.

A balance can be struck. And Keyes' proposal seems reasonable to me.

[Chad Fairbanks]

And the alternative is never compensating slaves and their descendants.

I have an idea - how about we pay reparations to every person in this country, regardless of color, who was a slave in this country?

Now, we just need to find some...

[Howlin]

Are you FOR some sort of reparations? Seriously?

[Reagan Man]

>>>... the alternative is never compensating slaves and their descendants. A balance can be struck. And Keyes' proposal seems reasonable to me.

OMG! Keyes proposal is bizarre. The last slave died in the late 1920`s and the last slave owner has been dead for many years. The descendents of slaves weren't slaves themselves. People living today never owned slaves. My family has been here since the 1840`s. My family never owned slaves. I never owned slaves. This entire issue has been fabricated to squeeze more money out of the American taxpayer.

Since the 1960`s the American taxpayer has spent some $7,000,000,000,000 --- that's seven trillion dollars --- to fight poverty and help black Americans become full participants in the American dream. The poverty rate is about where it was in the 1960`s. Republicans helped Democrats pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. The feds instituted affirmative action and a racial quota system to assist blacks, women and other minorities in fully realizing the potential of the American dream. That's enough socialism for one century. Hell, that's enough socialism for one nations entire history!

Enough is enough!