Path to Redemption

Over a century and a half after the last Negro slaves were emancipated in the United States, some still demand reparations. No individual alive today either owned a slave or was a slave in America. A substantial portion, if not most American families, had their first progenitor reach US shores after slavery was abolished. Why should someone from the great waves of Eastern European or Italian immigration that occurred after the Civil War be forced to pay for an event that did not involve anyone connected to their families? Beyond that, few Southerners even owned slaves before the War Between the States. Do you think white sharecroppers had the means to afford a slave? Of course, there were some great fortunes built on the great crime of owning other people, including in the plantation economy that the ultra-rich participated in before Emancipation, but this was a tiny minority of whites, many of whom were dipossessed and destroyed financially by Reconstruction. Yet calls for reparations persist. If someone owes the Black community something in the United States, it should be Planned Parenthood with genocidal Margaret Sanger at the helm pushing "purebred" white Americans and locating abortion mills primarily in areas with high concentrations of African-Americans. At least now with Roe being overturned, Blacks will see a greater chance of taking a first breath outside the womb with the Eugenicists being pushed to the back foot in parts of the United States where they will find it harder to prey on African-Americans.