David Horowitz

About the author: David Horowitz is president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a conservative think tank in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery, the source of the following viewpoint, and Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes.

Claims for slavery reparations are founded on racist ideas that are inconsistent with America's democratic principles and institutions. Singling out only white Americans as those responsible for paying reparations to the descendants of slaves is unfair since Africans were involved in the slave trade as well. Moreover, targeting all white Americans is wrong because only a tiny minority of whites ever owned slaves and many emigrants to America arrived long after slavery had ended. Trillions of...