Why the Descendants of Slaves Should not Receive Reparations

Rep. John Conyers (Michigan D) agreed with the council of Chicago and Washington city. The descendants of slaves in America should receive money to compensate for the work their fathers made as slaves. Council members and city councils are obviously not alone. Various black activists, politicians, lobby groups support the same cause

First of all, debt is being repaid regardless of debt. Abraham Lincoln made this clearly in his second inauguration ceremony. There he believed that if the Civil War consumed all the wealth accumulated by slaves and a drop of slave blood sucked by a slave whip was shattered by a sword it would be okay It was. The southern part was probably a century to regain the wealth lost in the war. Of course, the lost lives of both sides have never been recovered. Lincoln announced in Gettysburg that this was the sacrifice of those who fought in the war and passed away. It will enable the freedom of the new Americans. All Americans benefit from this sacrifice regardless of skin color.

If Lincoln's principle ethical accounting is not sufficient, we may come up with more political arguments than opposed to compensation. Those claiming these payments asked the descendants of Africa to slave their African compatriots and then sell them to European slave merchants to make them, so Americans argue about harvesting You might think about listening. If African descendants in Africa are still participating in slave trade to pay compensation, the US government may consider doing the same.

But in fact, we have already paid a certain amount of compensation. A positive action plan has been undertaken for over 30 years. They are very expensive. Federal, state, and local governments spend money to manage and enforce them. Companies comply with the rules and use more to protect themselves when someone thinks they do not comply with administrative procedures or legal proceedings. We also pay incompetence and increased morale at work.

Estimates of these costs vary. Some people reach hundreds of billions of dollars. But even if we accept lower estimates and remember that women and other ethnic minorities benefit from aggressive action policies, it is still a matter of tens of billions of dollars a year for black Americans It means that the year is also paid. In fact, these payments, if any, do not seem to be so effective, they have not changed the fact that they are being built.

Finally, when considering the compensation problem, we should return to the point made by Lincoln. All blacks from slavery can compensate for slavery harm through luck living in the United States. All black Americans are far superior economic, legal, political, and moral than any black living in Africa. Not only black people but all Americans borrow is repayable only by being a good citizen.

David Tucker is a part-time researcher at the Ashbrook Public Affairs Center in Ashland University, Associate Professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School.

Georgetown University recently decided to offer priority registration to hundreds of slaves. It increased compensation for slave trade. In addition, several years ago, the US Senate and the House of Representatives bid separate bills - never apologized for the slavery and Jim Crow 's bill - which did not come into the bill, but there were differences in compensation. The United Nations does not normally compare domestic policies of the United States. However, the "Expert Working Group on African people" was established 14 years ago. Today it is part of the Human Rights Council under the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office (OHCHR). It started in a controversial Durban meeting in 2001 (in the era when the UN Human Rights Committee is over). At that time, the George W. Bush administration ceased to satisfy these requirements and other issues relating to slavery compensation.

Slavery compensation is an idea of ​​some form of compensation for African descendants being enslaved as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The most striking claims are Britain and America. Caribbean countries and African countries where slaves were obtained also submitted claims for compensation. Following the end of the American Civil War and the approval of the thirteenth revision, slavery ended in the United States and the thirteenth revision declared as follows: "The party should be officially convicted In addition to being a punishment it does not exist in the United States or somewhere under its jurisdiction. "Currently, an estimated 4 million African Americans are released