Slavery_Reparations

Slavery Reparations Slavery and Reparations Despite the fact that slavery officially ended over one hundred years ago, there remains discussions of owing slaves’ families reparations. Numerous articles, essays, and journals have been written arguing both sides of this important and controversial issue. In Jack E. White’s article, “Don’t Waste Your Breath,” he argues against reparations. On the contrary, Vincene Verdun’s article, “To Right an Old Wrong: Potential Defendants for Slavery Reparations are Still Around,” defends and supports reparations. These two articles differ in there arguments, appeals and audiences, and credibility. First, the differences between White and Verdun appear in their arguments. White, an African American journalist for Time magazine, received his motivation for writing his article after reading David Horowitz’s list on why reparations are “a bad idea for blacks” (White 573-574). White said he has tangled with Horowitz in the past. Even though White and Horowitz have different viewpoints on the reparations issue, White applauds Horowitz for making reparations a story worth fighting for (574). White’s main claim in his article is that the argument over reparations is a waste of time. This belief, explains the title of his article. He claims that the issue is not worth debating. Also, he argues that slavery, reparations, white, verdun, article, argument, white’s, claims, support, articles, sources, slave, pay, money, makes, issue, credibility, arguments, against, verdun’s, two, essay, concerning, audience, african, way, though, strong, states, slaves, race, never, making, government