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A Vicious Circle: Reparations Claim Puts Blacks' Fate In Whites' Hands.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(BRAIN TRUST)
Byline: Michael Medved
Why now? That is both the most pertinent and the most perplexing question about the increasingly strident international demands for slavery reparations.
The obsession with slavery only intensifies as the institution itself recedes further and further into the past. Against all logic, the great-great-grandchildren of slaves place more emphasis on the legacy of bondage than did prior generations far closer to it.
Chicago Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman, one of the national leaders of the reparations movement, insists that every black -- yes, even Colin Powell and Michael Jordan -- suffers from a malady called post-traumatic slave syndrome.
Enterprising analysts only discovered this devastating disorder some 130 years after slavery itself ceased to exist.
Slavery's Victims?
Every thoughtful observer would suggest that the experience of slavery -- an institution that blighted millions of lives over the course of four centuries -- bears a connection to current conditions in the African-American community. But it defies reason to suggest that the legacy of bondage exerts the greatest influence on those at the greatest remove from that ordeal.
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