Reperations

Reperations The issue of reparations has been a prevalent subject for some time in our society. On the 15 of March, 2002, Ald.. Dorothy Tillman introduced a resolution in the Chicago City Council asking that African Americans be compensated by the federal government for the four hundred years their ancestors spent as slaves. There are as many cons as there are pros regarding this subject. My judgment on this matter is no. I believe that the descendants of former slaves should not receive reparations from the federal government. As described in the Chicago newsletter, there are no living slaves to receive reparations. Slavery did occur in the United States, this cannot be refuted, but it occurred long enough ago that no living person today was part of it personally. Many people alive today who have had slavery in their ancestry are third generation and beyond. One might argue that this is a method of forgetting or refusing to come to grips with the past, but I would say that not paying reparations is the way of progression. Additionally brought up in the Chicago newsletter is that if the federal government began compensating descendants of former slaves for the injustice done to reparations, government, federal, slavery, cannot, african, today, slaves, americans, time, past, newsletter, matter, enough, done, control, chicago, back, ancestors, years, world, subject, states, should, receive, proposed, people, part, over, nations, money, mexico, living, give, former, descendants