The issue of reparation payments to the descendants of slaves has been in question lately. Many people are having trouble looking a both sides of the argument. Many others can answer yes or no to the question, but they do not know how to back up their answer.
             Back when slavery started, the whites brought over boatloads of people from Africa. These African people were brought against their will and make to work for free. The only thing they received from their owner was poorly constructed shelter and very little food. Once reconstruction of the Union started, Black rights were established. Many Southerners did not honor these Black rights. African-Americans were often humiliated and punished for being Black. They had to use separate restaurants, water fountains, restrooms, basically everything. They might have to walk twenty extra miles just to reach a colored water fountain. African-Americans were treated very unfairly back then.
             Obviously things have changed a lot since those times. African-Americans are now able to do everything that whites are able to do. Equal right are established and the rules are now followed. They are no longer suffering for being Black.
             Back to the posed question. Should the government of the United States make restitution payments to the descendents of slave for the misery their ancestors went through over two hundred years ago? My answer is no because we have more than made up for the mistakes of the slave owners.
             Lincoln argued this point in his Second Inauguration. He basically stated that the bloodshed of the Civil War had consumed all the debts owed to the slaves. Lincoln announced at Gettysburg that all who fought and died in the war made it possible for the new freedom the slaves acquired. The war is no the only reason I disagree with the restitution payments.
             We are already paying our debts to slave's descendents in one way through affirmative action programs that have been in pl...