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SCHAEFFER: The Historical Complexities Of Reparations

Brad Schaeffer

Today Congressional hearings were held to consider discussions of reparations to African-Americans as recompense for the sin of slavery. As the Democrat Party totters ever leftward it was only a matter of time before this perplexing idea reached Capitol Hill.

To burden 21st Century Americans of a certain melanin-count with the sins of a nation that over 150 years ago was effectively melted down and recast at such hallowed places as Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, and finally Appomattox is prima facia absurd. To then seriously consider cash payments from today’s citizenry via the already red-ink saturated U.S. Treasury boggles the mind.

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