1. There is no single group clearly responsible for the crime of slavery.

2. There is no one group that benefited exclusively from the fruits of slavery.

3. Only a tiny minority of white Americans ever owned slaves. Over 3000 ante-bellum South slave owners were black themselves.

4. America today is a multi-ethnic nation and most Americans have no connection direct or indirect, to slavery.

5. The historical precedents used to justify the reparations claim do not apply, and the claim itself is based on race not injury.

6. The reparations argument is based on the unfounded claim that all African-American descendants of slaves suffer from the economic consequences of slavery and discrimination.

7. The reparations claim is one more attempt to turn African-Americans into victims and sends a damaging message to the African-American community.

8. Reparations to African Americans have already been paid in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences in contracts, job placements and educational admissions.

9. If anything, blacks owe a debt to America for the abolishment of slavery and creation of the anti-slavery movement by white English and American Christians and to those who gave their lives to free the slaves.

10. The reparations claim is a separatist idea that sets African-Americans against the nation that gave them freedom.