Should Americans pay reparations for slavery?

Amongst other sins, slavery is one of the great blemishes on the history of the United States. Disgraceful, deplorable, reprehensible, and shameful, slavery was the greatest evil our nation harbored through the 19th century. Because of this great crime we perpetrated against our fellow human beings, we have spent the last 160 years attempting to distance ourselves from it, erasing any traces of systematic prejudice or discrimination to make this country as racially unbiased as possible. And while any sort of changes that we make as a nation cannot undo the things of the past, the actions we take today should be oriented around creating a more harmonious world for tomorrow. “We should always remember that stain on our American history so that it should never be repeated again,” began Patrick Madrid on a segment of The Patrick Madrid Show. “But does that mean that it would be truly equitable – in the true sense, not in the modern, ideological sense of the word – appropriate, or ethical to force you to pay reparations for things that took place 150 – 200 years ago? Is that really fair?” The United States is not the only nation discussing this controversial topic...