1st Black Billionaire Wants $14 trillion in Reparations for Black Americans

Blacks will ALWAYS be systematically racist against as long as they are a minority. Just like whites are systematically racist against in South Africa. I'm not saying this is right but when a majority of your country has a certain culture and belief, there will always be another race that will feel left out.

a reply to: carewemust

To someone who has amassed a billion dollars, "needing the money" has zero to do with their thought process. Maybe Warren Buffet is an exception. But I know more than 1 billionaire well enough to have their phone number in my cell, but not well enough to get them to answer me if i call them. I can promise you that the best analogy I can find for how they view money is like the score on a video game. Its an abstract to them, outside of their ability to use it to leverage.

His motivation was likely pandering to a demographic to get a higher score.

Count me in. If the African American community promises to not whine and complain about the white man holding them down and blaming us for all of their problems for all of eternity, then start the printing presses.

14 Trillion? Really?
We have given reparations to groups before ( Native Americans, Interred Japanese ), but this is a different situation.
Both of those groups could actually show harm done by Government.
I don't think Blacks can show concrete evidence in the same manner
Blacks often compare their situation to whites, but they manage to screw that up
They never use their nearest comparisons ( poor uneducated whites, often referred to as White Trash)
When these comparisons are used for generational wealth transfer, there is very little difference between the two


And then , to demand about 300, 000 bucks for each black citizen, is absolutely insane
Japanese victims, which lost everything, including home and property, got 20, 000 in 1988
That is about 45000 now
And these people were able to display real loss in a court, not emotional arguments
Native Americans got even less
with even more of an argument

Then there is the issue of exactly who gets it?
there were almost 500,000 freemen living in the USA at the end of the civil war, with about 350,000 being born free
How many of these people ever set foot in the south?
How many descendants do they have now?
Should each Black person, who matches that description get reparations, even though they never experienced slavery and they never experienced Jim Crow laws?

If they want to argue reparations for Tulsa or Rosewood, then they have concrete evidence of loss and should be granted something
But everything else is built upon deceit, with the intention of committing the greatest theft in the history of this country

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Right!

a reply to: HawkeyeNation

Then every minority in America is subjected to systemic racism. Correct?

Joe Biden wants 2 trillion for infrastructure. Bernie Sanders wants 6 trillion for general liberal purposes. The founder of Black entertainment television wants 17 trillion for reparations.

What happens, does the US mint just print out all these trillions of dollars?

They'll keep flooding the economy with printed Dollars until we get a Hyperinflation like Zimbabwe 🤣🤣

originally posted by: Mikemp44
While I am of the thought that reparations for Black Americans can and should be discussed . . .

In what context should this be "discussed" ? 😃

Proof of Harm (show cause etc.) for instance ? 😃

a reply to: Mikemp44


Ummm...I kinda like the phrase..."you'll get nothing...and like it"...

Reparations for what...exactly...?

For never having been enslaved...?

Sounds to me like a certain demographic...just wants a free ride...on the backs of everyone that never once owned any slaves...






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originally posted by: LSU2018

Odd that we never hear about any of this.

Very odd mate.

You don't hear much about this either.

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I wonder if the families of the folks that helped the slaves through the underground railroad would be exempt?
Or how about families like mine who have never had slaves.

Will there be a tax rebate?

a reply to: Mikemp44

Tell them to get the money from the countries that sold their ancestors in the first place.

All the United States should give them is a free plane ticket back to their country of origin.
But if you leave you renounce your citizenship and never come back.

So, when will Egypt pay the jews?

How about those west African nations who sold their own to the Dutch?

Id like to see some caribbean nations start first.


Lets do this chronologically and see when/if they are satisfied.

a reply to: Mikemp44

That's an easy one. His argument is facially absurd. "No"

However, he's free to give away his billions for "reparations" if he wants. Sign me up first, I had relatives die in the civil war

a reply to: Bluntone22
Didnt Ethiopia have this offer in the 60s and 70s? Free land for every Black person who moved there.

a reply to: Mikemp44

What about the Irish? There was systemic abuse and holding down of many white immigrants too. Let's make everyone a billionaire, problem solved right progressives?

1st Black Billionaire Wants $14 trillion in Reparations for Black Americans

Like my dad used to say " want in one hand and crap in the other. See which one fills up first"

The "black reparations" arguement is plain stupid.

Surely the native Americans deserve reparations first, or perhaps African nations (of old) who were complicit in the slave trade should pay up. Why shouldn't Italy be paying up for their run of slavery during the Roman Empire, or the North Africans, or Arabs, or the Persian, or (well back to Africa) the Africans for enslaving Africans - they are still doing it!

My point is that people need to move on and stop being a victim. That includes billionaires.

originally posted by: MRinder
Count me in. If the African American community promises to not whine and complain about the white man holding them down and blaming us for all of their problems for all of eternity, then start the printing presses.

There is no "african american community". This notion of "community" is asinine. I vape, and had to start ignoring social media and such because of this idea that i am part of their community.

Now, there may be some black people who share a common memetic process. But its not a monolith, and its doubtful you'd ever get anything representing agreement if you took a poll of everyone who identifies as "african american". What you'd likely find is that geography and regional differences have the biggest impact.

As a small view into a microcosm, I interact a lot with folks from Killeen and Temple. Both cities have a pretty large black population. But the difference in overall mindset is stark. Not just between black people either. The people who live in Killeen have a MUCH different worldview than the people in Temple....a city that is maybe 20 miles away in the same county.

I suspect that you could chat with black folks living in the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle, outside of Amarillo and Lubbock, and get a VASTLY different view than the folks who live in Amarillo and Lubbock.