"First of all, about reparations, the notion of paying money to black or partially black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors from Africa.
It’s a beguiling idea.Slavery was so hideous a crime and caused so much pain and suffering that something should be done about it.
But we face a lot of problems in the concept of reparations.
For one thing, there were a fair number of black people who emancipated themselves through superhumanly hard work, then used their savings to buy slaves.
How do we assess their liability?
...Also, there is a chain of causation in many cases.
One black tribe attacked and captured others then the captors sold their slaves to Arab slave traders who then sold the slaves to New England slave brokers.
...Also, who would be taxed for the reparations?
The great majority of white Americans never owned any slaves.
Why should they be taxed?
The present population of America is by a wide margin the scions of Poles and Czechs and Italians and Chinese and Jews who never owned any slaves at all.
Why should they be taxed at all for reparations?...
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