Why we should welcome a real trial about slave reparations

By John Massoud

For the past fifteen or so years, there has been a movement among some liberals to require that the descendents of former slaves be paid for the suffering of their ancestors. Conservatives have railed against this transfer of wealth, saying (rightly, one should add) that a person or entity cannot be held responsible for the actions of another person who has been dead for over 150 years......

But conservatives should not only welcome the concept of a reparations trial, we should also be championing it. And in doing so, we would be providing what Barack Obama would call a “teachable moment” about the real history of slavery in not only the Western World, but also in the history of all mankind........

Liberals of all stripes have been trying to rewrite world history of many countries.  Our liberal friends have tried to change the Holy Bible to say the descendents of Joseph were not slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt but were actually paid laborers.  These intellectual giants of the left have conveniently neglected to teach that the current term “slave” is descended from the 9^th century, where the white people of East Europe (Slavs) were kidnapped and sold into “slavery” by Spanish Muslims.......

We haven’t even touched on the number of African Americans who not only owned but also traded slaves......And how about the African Americans who owned white slaves?.......  How Blacks have sold their own “brothers and sisters” into slavery....... Now wouldn’t that be special?

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