Slavery Today | Reparations Should Not Be Paid to Descendants of African American Slaves
Karl Zinsmeister is the editor-in-chief of the American Enterprise, a monthly journal of politics, business, and culture.
Summary: Paying reparations to the decendants of African American slaves would not right the wrong of slavery because slaves and those who benefited from slavery are no longer living. Sorting out who should receive reparations and who should pay them is too complicated, now that the identities of oppressors and the oppressed have been blurred through racial mixing. Moreover, Americans have tried to compensate for slavery through...
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