Contra Reparations

The idea that African-Americans are owed reparations for slavery in 2021 is laughable. Slavery was abolished in 1865. All the former slaves and slave-owners are long dead—as are their children. God himself does not visit the iniquity of the fathers past the third or fourth generation (Deut. 4:9), but we are now told to do so unto the seventh and eighth.

The moral debt America incurred for slavery has long since been discharged. Some 750,000 men died in the bloodiest war in our history to end slavery. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, pro-black racial preferences have become the norm in every sector of American life. This past year, the poisonous lies peddled by Black Lives Matter (BLM) have become the country's unofficial state religion.

And yet, in spite of their manifest injustice, I would support reparations, but under one condition only: If America pays up, then everyone shut ups and we all finally agree to go beyond race.

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