Slavery | The U.S. Government Should Not Pay Reparations to Blacks for the Harms Caused by Slavery

The activist campaign demanding payment of “slavery reparations” to today’s black Americans probably strikes some readers as too far-fetched to take seriously. Better stop and look afresh. I myself realized that the concept had moved beyond faculty lounges, radical salons, and afrocentric pamphlets and into the realm of serious political struggle when I looked over the roster of a legal group convened to plot practical strategy for winning such compensation. It included not only DreamTeamer Johnny Cochran, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, and other ideologically...

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