Reparations incognito

Americanthinker.com ^ | 3/17/2021 | Ned Cosby

[rktman]

If someone were to ask me what the United States of America's greatest mistake was, I would answer without hesitation: slavery. The legacy of slavery is a cloud that hangs over our nation much like clouds of genocide that hang over China, Germany, and Russia. One of the solutions proposed by people who want to move beyond the shadow of slavery is to pay reparations to those who were hurt by slavery.

Opponents of the idea of reparations claim that both the people who carried out slavery and the people who suffered under slavery are dead. It is hard to argue that point. Nevertheless, the left ensures that the cloud of slavery remains, and today, there are people who vigorously lobby that the 21st-century descendants of slaves in America receive compensation for the horrors of slavery their ancestors suffered in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. They do not acknowledge that uncounted numbers of Americans are descended from people who arrived in America long after slavery had ended.

On June 1, 2020, a well known black businessman, Robert Johnson, called for the United States to pay 14 trillion dollars in reparations to living descendants of African-American slaves. In his proposal, each living descendant of a slave would receive $350,000 in reparations.

I would urge the advocates of reparations like Robert Johnson to consider some deductions in the amount demanded. The bloodiest war in American history was fought over the question of slavery. Over 620,000 men and women died in the war that ended the institution of slavery. After the war, three amendments to our Constitution were added to end the discrimination caused by slavery.

[arthurus]

Muhammad Ali said, after his Rumble in the jungle fight in Congo where he observed conditions, that he was sure glad his great granddaddy go on that boat.