Reparations the Wrong Road to Racial Equality

Reparations the Wrong Road to Racial Equality
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929–1968) addresses crowds during the "March on Washington" at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C., where he gave his "I have a dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963. Central Press/Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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Racial reparations—a policy that would grant African-Americans money or government benefits not received by others as compensation for the sin of slavery—used to be an idea of the far left fringe. Not any longer. Major elements of the Democrat Party and the progressive intellectual class now advocate reparations as a matter of guaranteeing racial “equity” and to elevate black Americans to opportunity parity with whites.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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