So, you might out of your own generosity, encourage those waiting for their handout to engage in individual freedom and capitalism and -- as all who do these things do -- thrive.

Well said. Let me throw in the need to eliminate the broadest slavery practiced today: the Income Tax. The 13th and 14th Amendments ended "the peculiar institution;" the 16th Amendment re-instituted it.

So much nonsense. Why are they even working on this. A real president and secretary of state would tell the UN to stay out of fringe in-country affairs like this, and get back to real issues, or the US will start making life difficult for them.

I am sorry but I am an individual. How am I responsible for what others do? If I were responsible for violating another's rights then I would endeavor to make them whole again. However, my hands are clean and I feel zero need to remedy the faults of my fellow and former citizens. And I feel zero need to compensate victims to wrongs I had no part in committing. So take your Social Justice somewhere else, because it is a perversion of what true justice is.

Actually, the majority of the participants in the Continental Congress opposed slavery and wanted to abolish it even then, but they recognized that they needed 2/3 of the States to ratify the Constitution and they couldn't get to that number without the South - including Virginia. So they dropped it, knowing that it would have to be taken up at a later time.

Not coincidence at all. Opportunism.

That is not a bad position. I look at the individual, and what they say and do, not their color. The color just explains some of the responses.

And I thought the winners wrote history. Truth is less than half of "African-Americans" trace their American-ness to slavery. The majority trace to someone in the late 1800's or early 1900's who had the good sense to escape Africa and immigrate to America. Keith B Richburg in his book, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, struggles with his realization that the best thing that ever happened to him (Richburg) was that a distant relative was captured by some other African and sold to traders and shipped off to the new world. He notes and thoroughly documents that the poorest, most discriminated against modern day African-American has it vastly better than the average person of color in much -- if not most -- of modern day Africa.

It is beyond stupid, to the point you have to ask about the timing. Is it a coincidence that we have had a string of "black murders" that seemingly were done by incredibly stupid cops, and right after that we have this?

Its just time to move on to the future. As far as I am concerned, the whole term "racism" should be expunged from the vocabulary at this point.

I am going to take heat for this, but I really think that the intellectual idea of inferiority because of "race" is really dead. One could argue that that concept was known to be inaccurate even during slavery, but was perpetuated so as to get free labor from an easily identifiable group of human beings by making them feel inferior. That was BAD.

That said, this is 2016, and although a lot of people want to get a bigger piece of the pie at the expense of others, its no longer an issue of "race'. Its what they can get away with based on economic or political power- whether its paying women less for the same work as a man, or whatever.

Everyone profiles in so many ways today. The world is too complex to initially spend time on each person, product, place to live, etc. Profiling allows us all to make choices quickly that are not 100% accurate all the time, but are sufficiently accurate to allow is to live in the complex society.

I dont look at race at all. I dont even see color of skin. There are so many people of mixed race that it just doesnt make sense to look at that. I think Obama has done more damage to relations between blacks and whites than we realize. He prefers blacks specifically (look at his appointments to government). Look at his reactions to "black lives matter".

Yes, if you look at our society in context a lot of us are slaves to the current government.

Exactly, The Jews have a better case against the Germans. You could also add in about 20 other ethnic groups who were put in forced labor camps. No reparations were pursued because the big fear was the Commie Bastards coming over the hill, so the money was needed for tanks and guns, and to rebuild the economy so the people didn't get stupid and buy into the commie ideal.

It was more an economic issue than not. The countries main products were farm ones, and the lack of resources dictated a response that the elite then (our founding fathers) felt was justified. The fact some of them did not participate, or endorse it is left out of most discussion.

It does not to anyone with 2 neurons active to rub together. Problem is, we have a herd of sheeple in this country who will use it to justify a "reparation tax" or some crap, to just loot the last bit we have.

Btw, since when does anything gurgled by the UN have any proof or validity?

How about a simple: Yes, that's old history and it's over?

How about: Let's see where slavery is still practiced... Oh, in Africa - where junta lords conscript young boys to fight wars for them! And everyone involved is BLACK.

How about: recognizing that this is just another cult of blame that does nothing but dwell on the past instead of moving toward the future?

How about: making someone who isn't culpable pay for someone else's actions is in and of itself slavery. Your great-great-grandparents were slaves, but somehow that entitles you to collect reparations from someone else's great-great-grandchildren?

Garrrhhhh. These things just get my blood pressure up because they are so STUPID.

Where are the african countries going to get money for all the slavery, massacres, etc, perpetuated by themselves? Is this another BLM con trick?

Put in perspective, yes bad things were done to black people. Bad things were done to Native Americans. Bad things were done to a lot of people by a lot of people.I agree with you, in that it is just an attempt to ostracize a group by another group, and is just a "feel good maneuver". If they want to go find abused people, I would say the living Jews who survived the Germans have a better case, yet the UN NEVER has mentioned that. Totally nonsequiter.

On the mark Doc! I would say they should waste their time addressing the current persecution of Yazadis by Syria, and force Russia to pay them reparations as state sponsors of terrorism. Stop wasting time in ancient history.

The salves came from Africa, they were captured by Africans, sold to slaver who may or maynot have been Americans and brought to this country. So far, so good. Then this country decided that slavery was WRONG and something was done about that (ask all the dead guys from the Civil War). Are we going to give the families of those killed for slaves freedom reparations? QUESTION:

Slavery In The Past"
Rome, Greece, and over 100 others.
Slavery Present:
Most Muslim States
When to those reparations start? What about current slavery? What about so-called White Slavery? What about the German reparations for the Jews?
Stupid is as stupid does. -- Forrest Gump

Class action time! I am sure I can find a Dane in my background..somewheres. Does a Great Dane count?

Exactly! To go down that road invites all the other results I put in above. It makes no sense in that you ascribing a debt to 20 generations later, as well as the benefits. It is pure political, feel good theater.

The long and short of it is: At one time or another during recorded history, we have all been slaves. Still, in many respects, we all are still enslaved to this very day.

Yes. I say there should be extra compensation for each level. Let the lawsuits begin!