What’s often forgotten in the whole “reparations” soup:
1. Most white Americans have no ancestors that owned slaves.
2. The English introduced slavery to the colonies, and the Slave trade from Africa was almost entirely an English undertaking. The continued the promotion of slavery in North America for 160 years before the United States even existed.
3. After 160 years of English-induced slavery, the United States gained independence and embarked on a slow limiting of slavery, and ended the practice after 90 years, at the cost of (at the time) the bloodiest war in history,
4. The effort to end slavery took some 600,000 lives, including 400,000 Union soldiers, almost entirely white. Their families received almost no compensation or reparations for their losses beyond a free headstone in a cemetery far from home.
5. Young Americans are sadly completely ignorant of the above as a result of the shabby history education they receive from teachers’ unions loyal to the party of slavery, The Democratic Party, which has not offered to pay reparations.
6. So far, Neither the British government, nor the Crown has offered a single penny in reparations, nor have they been asked. NFL players at NFL games played in London are careful not to take a knee, preferring to stand, according to tradition, in honor of the flag and crown under which the slave system was created.
G Gordon is a good man. I know.