Slavery Reparations Are Wrong

Slavery Reparations Are Wrong

Ladies and gentlemen; I don't believe that anyone in this
chamber would move to disagree with the idea that slavery was an
atrocity, committed from the depths of the darkest parts of the human
sole. Africans were seized from their native land, and sold into
lives of servitude into a foreign land. Indeed, it was a tragedy on
such a scale that cannot be measured nor quantified. And it is this
very notion of unquantifiable tragedy which speaks to the matter of
reparations for slavery. To be quite blunt, reparations, even if they
may be deserved, are not feasible under any system or economic tangent
- indeed such an undertaking would only not remedy the situation, but
it would sink Africa and her people deeper into the cycle of poverty
and oppression that they have so struggled to free themselves. While
the arguments against reparations may seem shallow or self-serving to
advocates of such a system, upon examination, the logistics of what to
give, and whom to distribute it to, preclude any potential benefits of
such a system of indemnity and requite. The point of the follow
critique is not to say that Africans were not mistreated, nor that
they are not worthy of reparations, but that perhaps reparations are
not an adequate solution to this situation, and indeed will only serve
to worsen.
Africa is a continent in dire straits. European colonization
and colonialism damaged the native structure and society - s...

Slavery Reparations Are Wrong

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