OPINION:
All things and events are relative, whether in the course of human events or in Einstein’s general theory of relativity involving both dimensions of time and space. Slavery of generations ago is a national embarrassment. No one is proud of it. And realistically most Americans are tired of being reminded of those events by today’s race-baiting cottage industry, as Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee forges forward in her role as its vanguard proponent for slavery reparation payments (“’Why not now?’ for slavery reparations, House panel is told,” Web, June 19).
Reparation payments to this generation of black Americans based upon events which occurred more than 200 years ago is utterly foolish. What if, in the year 2265, a politician were to demand “reparations” for an early-21st-century societal misdeeds? Such a demand would be just as half-witted as these current Democratic demands for reparations for wrongdoing from several hundred years ago.
EARL BEAL
Terre Haute, Ind.
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