It was a pretty good segment. First the good news, Bill O'Reilly referred to any government payments of slavery reparations to African-Americans as an "extortion of the American public that is immoral."
Bill seemed to have an open-mind on corporate slavery reparation payments "where specific harm can be proved." Sorry Bill, this is not a good idea, slavery was abolished in 1865. Too much time has passed and any actual slaves passed away decades ago.
And let me repeat, slavery was bad, very bad. As were the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and the denial of voting rights to most southern blacks until 40 years ago.
Two guest were on with O'Reilly during this segment, Debra Dickerson, author of "End of Blackness," who opposed reparations for slavery, and Keith Watters, a civil rights who supported the opposite end of the argument.
Expect future posts here about slavery reparations.
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