reparations are not new, but they are a joke.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/03/25/reparations-sidebar.htm
what's more interesting is the last quote. I've shown that black people are an economic burden, but being led by stupid liberal commie such as Jackson, they really believe that all you see around you is built on an economic foundation of a bunch of cotton pickers 160 years ago and they are owed for it.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/03/25/reparations-sidebar.htm
The idea that America owes a debt to African-Americans because of slavery is hardly new.
It was an issue debated by politicians after the Civil War, raised by aging ex-slaves at the dawn of the 20th century and trumpeted by civil rights leaders in the 1960s.
Why is it bursting back into view?
"You cannot explain the uniqueness of a pregnant moment â and this is a pregnant moment in history," says activist Jesse Jackson.
"The issue has critical mass."
From college campuses and state capitols to courthouses and corporate boardrooms, reparations is suddenly a hot topic.
Jackson himself is an example of the resurgent interest. Long supportive of calls for reparations, he has previously steered clear of deeper involvement. Now, he's taking up the cause by urging New York Life and other insurers that once issued policies on slaves for their masters to open corporate files and consider ways to make redress.
"All those years of work without wages are the foundations of America's wealth," Jackson says. "America must acknowledge its roots in the slavery empire, apologize for it ... and work on some plan to compensate."
what's more interesting is the last quote. I've shown that black people are an economic burden, but being led by stupid liberal commie such as Jackson, they really believe that all you see around you is built on an economic foundation of a bunch of cotton pickers 160 years ago and they are owed for it.