By Selwyn Duke
What is the statute of limitations, so to speak, on slavery-based claims such as “reparations”? No one has provided any such time frame despite slavery having ended in the United States back in 1865-’66. But one academic has offered a different kind of specificity: estimating how many minorities each white child will have to support under reparations models.
While approximately 70 percent of Americans oppose giving the handouts euphemistically known as “reparations” to descendants of black American slaves, there are stark racial/ethnic divides on the issue. “Most black Americans, 74%, favor reparations, compared with 15% of white Americans,” related the New York Post in 2019. “Among Hispanics, 44% favor reparations.” What’s more, the effort has gained great traction in the Democrat Party.
It may gain more traction, too, if Professor Emeritus Gunnar Heinsohn, who has taught at the University of Bremen and the NATO Defense College, is correct.
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