SHOULD NOT BLACKS BE GIVEN PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OVER WHITES TO COMPENSATE FOR PAST INJUSTICES?
In short, that argument is like saying that European Americans should be punished, today, because a few Whites historically oppressed Blacks. There is no system of justice in the world that sanctions the punishment of children for the sins of their ancestors. And, if it is appropriate to punish Whites today because a small number practiced slavery over a hundred years ago, why shouldn’t Blacks be punished for their ancestors’ record of slavery, brutality, and oppression in Africa that has gone on for at least the last ten thousand years? No people’s human rights record is without blemish, including Blacks, but no people have contributed more to the well being of all the peoples of the earth than the White Races. In the creation and spreading of the concepts of freedom and democratic principles, education, the arts, medicine, technology and science, Whites have played an indispensable role; one for which our children should certainly not be punished.
