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June 11, 2005
Reparations and You
If you missed it, check out Jeff Jacoby's piece Thursday for the Boston Globe (registration req'd) on slavery reparations and the "Wachovia Shakdown."
For a host of reasons, reparations are a terrible idea -- unjust, illogical, and dangerous. Living white Americans bear no culpability for slavery, and living black Americans never suffered from it. It would be unthinkable to make individuals responsible for the wrongdoing of their distant ancestors, or to require them to enrich the great-great-great grandchildren of the victims. The overwhelming majority of nonblack Americans have no family connection to slavery in any case -- most of us are descended from the millions of immigrants who came to this country after the Civil War.
But reparations advocates aren't interested in abstract arguments about justice and history; they are interested in extracting money from deep-pocketed corporations. Forcing firms to unearth ancient connections to slavery is one means to that end. Filing embarrassing lawsuits -- and then inviting settlement offers -- is another.
Instapunk does the math and concludes:
The United States of America indisputably has slavery as a part of its past. But if we can seriously be entreated today to wipe out all the current debts owed by the corrupt and frequently vicious governments of Africa, then perhaps African-Americans can finally forgive the debts owed by long dead white men to their long dead ancestors. Sound reasonable?
(H/T Michelle Malkin.)
Posted by bill at June 11, 2005 10:30 AM
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