I watched a YouTube video where a black leader in South Africa was ranting the whites must not be allowed to leave; they’d “poison the land”. I guess that is how they explain Zimbabwe’s agricultural collapse; it wasn’t idle, ignorant party hacks getting prime farmland and neglecting it; the whites must have “poisoned the land”.
This reparations BS is to get what they can as the white population contracts; they are escaping into the next world while passing the wealth (such as it is) on to friends and family. More and more “black” areas are completely isolated than that of whites, with widening buffer zones of Asians and Hispanics filling the yawning gap between them - and as a result, it is difficult to tether the costs of black urban areas to a white tax base. Rather than “poisoning the land”, whites have abandoned it altogether - increasingly leaving behind the municipal, county, even state borders that would share their fruits of working with welfare populations - and blacks are responding with alarm.
The reparations mentality is similar to the socialism one, both in method and result. The idea is that whites are still enjoying wealth obtained from black slavery. But what will blacks do with the wealth they “take back”? Build more wealth or squander it on useless luxuries? Before long that money will disappear and they’ll be demanding more from an ever-shrinking feed trough. Eventually everyone will be dirt poor.
Crime, high taxes, and poor schools drive the tax base away. What's left is not productive and the downward spiral continues as taxes are increased and policing declines.