Is Now the Time for Reparations for African Americans?
Is now the time for reparations for African Americans? The debate over the proposal for reparations for African Americans has generated even more controversy than affirmative action policies. But since the African Americans that live in America today didn’t experience slavery. They also didn’t experience racial segregation. To the few who don’t know what reparations are? They are proposals for compensations that people like Robert L. Allen think should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States. This is in consideration of the unpaid labor their ancestors performed over centuries. The article says that Robert L. Allen favors reparations for African Americans. But The Economist is opposed to reparations. But in my personal opinion I would have to agree with The Economist. The reason I agree is because even though my ancestors may have been enslaved. It would take too much time and effort to find the descendants of former enslaved people, time that we don’t have now in the United States. Our economy is already at risk of another depression. So where would the money for reparation come from to pay the give to these people.
Throughout my younger years I’ve always been taught about slavery. But never have I ever heard of reparations until now. Even as you grow older things you’ve never heard of began to surface. But even though reparations are for something good, money isn’t always the solution for everything, especially for people who have spent decades working for free. What about white Americans work for African Americans for free? How about whites go pick cotton, grow rice, or tobacco? Or should we crack the whip over white people? Then would whites call us master or would we be known as a cracker instead of a “nigger”. Those things run through my mind as I think of reparations. But Robert L. Allen thinks otherwise. He says “reparations provide a framework for the redistribution of wealth within the economy, and thereby moving towards
Throughout my younger years I’ve always been taught about slavery. But never have I ever heard of reparations until now. Even as you grow older things you’ve never heard of began to surface. But even though reparations are for something good, money isn’t always the solution for everything, especially for people who have spent decades working for free. What about white Americans work for African Americans for free? How about whites go pick cotton, grow rice, or tobacco? Or should we crack the whip over white people? Then would whites call us master or would we be known as a cracker instead of a “nigger”. Those things run through my mind as I think of reparations. But Robert L. Allen thinks otherwise. He says “reparations provide a framework for the redistribution of wealth within the economy, and thereby moving towards