Scottish University To Pay 20 Million Pounds In Slavery Reparations

[ChiTownDenny]

1. Slavery is abhorrent.

Right now PBS is running a 7 hour series, "African Americans: Many Rivers". The first hour documents the African slavery trade; that is Africans enslaving and trading each other. The Egyptians, the Persians (Iraq and Iran), the Greeks, the Romans,... Slavery has existed throughout mankind. It still exists in our enlightened world. Who gets reparations and why?
In America, I support Affirmative Action. Not as a reparation for slavery but as a remedy for the systemic racism that has existed and continues to exist in this county. Our history of denying black people education, employment, and housing has to be remedied. As far as reparations, I'm Greek descent and I'm sure, based on my ancestral lineage, I'm owed reparations and owe reparations. In America, however, I haven't been denied education, employment, or housing based on my ancestral lineage. So, reparations? ....