Slavery Reparations Are Silly – Tell Historical Truth Instead

California lawmakers just announced reparations bills, a first-in-nation attempt to give black Americans taxpayer money as supposed reparations for slavery. This is unconstitutional and nonsensical. What Americans should be doing and are not, on both the left and the right, is telling the truth about slavery and attempted racial genocide in the United States—and emphasize not just the villains, but the heroes.

Americans who actually experienced slavery, or whose parents experienced slavery, are long dead. It is simply ridiculous—and anti-American—to pretend that, 150+ years later, especially after so much civil rights progress, we should be held accountable for what our ancestors did long before we were born.

On the other hand, very few Americans want to face up to the actual reality of what slavery and racial violence in America actually meant. Whether it is painting all white Americans as racist or glorifying Confederate war criminals, Americans need to reject the lies they swallowed and face up to the real facts of history. You and I don’t know any former slaves, but we can speak truth, which is the only reparation we can now pay to the victims of slavery and racism in America’s past.

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