Posted on 08/25/2015 5:23:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Housing, education and job training, and other anti-poverty programs have cost some $22 trillion since Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the War on Poverty (WoP) some 50 years ago. Blacks made up some 40% of those living in poverty at the start of the program and now make up some 30% – though that figure may be misleading due to the increasing number of Hispanics living in poverty. In public housing alone, blacks constitute nearly 50% of the occupants.
Forty-eight percent of public housing households are black compared to only 19 percent of all renter households.6 Taking income into account does not alter this conclusion, since only 30 percent of households with incomes low enough to qualify for public housing are black.
Here is a commentary from BlackPast.org regarding WoP:
In urban areas like Los Angeles, Newark, Baltimore and New York, African Americans, inspired by the civil rights/black power movement and the participatory ideals of the War on Poverty, formed black-controlled community organizations in the 1960s and 1970s that provided jobs, job training, housing, credit unions, and cultural programs, many of which are still active today.
Yet many black activists today claim that WoP has been a flop, and particularly harmful to the black community by destroying the black family structure.
Flop or not, it has cost the American taxpayer $22 trillion. On a raw basis, more of that money has been spent on whites, since whites outnumber blacks ~9:1. But on a percentage of population basis, three times as much has been spent on blacks. It wasn’t done in the name of reparations, but to the extent that the higher rate of poverty among blacks is the result of discrimination, the effect is the same....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Would Zero have to pay?
I would be all for reparations if anyone who took it would be required to move to Africa and never return.
I would be up for paying 7 trillion as one time lump sum payment provided they never ask again and even asking again result in immediate execution of the people asking be it the people who receive the payoff or their future progeny.
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1. End affirmative action.
2. Make it a crime to collect or use ANY racial data for any purpose.
3. Outlaw any race specific grouping or special accommodations.
4. Make English the national language. Learn it, or no work.
screw that. Leave. I am not paying no one nuttin’
Sell Obama into slavery ! < /sarc>
I say $400,000 tax-free per individual with a one-way coach ticket to any country that’ll accept them and they give up their passport & citizenship on the tarmac.
I will pay $1,000,000 for every slave I have ever owned. Same for any living person in the U.S.....
How about the countless lives lost fighting to abolish slavery? WHITE lives.
Remember the Civil War homeboys?
Ho about taking the entire net worth of democrats and handing it over. After all, that was the party of slavery.
Too late, with all this talk of paying money for crimes we had nothing to do with X it’s pretty obvious th as the it was our first black president that brought back slavery.
How about 18 trillion to the citizens of the republic and all assets of government officials/socialists (current and former) seized.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
His white half would have to pay his black half.
[ I say $400,000 tax-free per individual with a one-way coach ticket to any country that’ll accept them and they give up their passport & citizenship on the tarmac. ]
Exactly my thought.
They constantly bitch about this country and how much it sucks, they whine about how they wan their “40 acres and a mule”....
400K and Mule kick on their way out.
Reparations?
How about 600,000 people killed!
I think it is high time we discussed the logical resolution to this issue in the form of peaceful separation.
My family paid in full, in 1864. Blood debt, don’t ask for anymore of ours and we won’t demand any of yours.
Congress would have to vote on this and I can’t see that happening.
And if the fools actually voted for this then they should hang.
But his black half were never slaves. His daddy was from Africa, remember?
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