Burgess Owens: Democrats Should Pay Slavery Reparations

Only one group is clearly responsible. And it isn't the rest of us.

by Rod D. Martin
June 20, 2019

Super Bowl champion Burgess Owens yesterday told Congress that if reparations should be paid for slavery, they should be paid by the Democrat Party.

“I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found the misery that party brought to my race ... Let's pay restitution. How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race?”

He's exactly right.

It was 100% Democrats, and only Democrats, who:

1. Pushed slavery in the territories.
2. Seceded from the Union (Southern Democrats).
3. Sought to let the Confederacy go (Northern Democrats), even after Atlanta had fallen and Sherman had marched to the sea.
4. Assassinated President Lincoln.
5. Founded the Ku Klux Klan after the War.
6. Lynched 3,000 black Americans and 1,000 white Republicans in a terror campaign across the South.
7. Imposed a form of semi-Apartheid in all the states they controlled.
8. Imposed segregation in Federal hiring a full half-century after the War (Woodrow Wilson).
9. Barred an…