Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
Black people have been working hard for decades.
One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future.
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.