Posted on 06/01/2020 9:23:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis.
“Now is the time to go big” to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Johnson said on “Squawk Box.”
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After every incident involving race, the Left presents a false premise that we all need to come together and purge systemic racism or some nonsense.
Then in the very next breath, reparations are discussed and how much it should be.
“...the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations...”
He probably is too stupid to know that the government has no money, that all its money comes from taxpayers, and that since none of the taxpayers never owned slaves, they won’t be too keen on destroying their future.
And they've worked so well too. /sarc
OK. Let’s start with your wealth, Robert.
No problem - Jerome Powell is already on it.
The demand for more would never, ever cease.
Dear Mr. Johnson,
Please tell us how long you were a slave!
ya, cuz once you pay blackmail money, the threat stops.......
How about getting your urban people to act civilized and we pay you nothing?
This Robert guy is a “black conservative.”
Pay him in Zimbabwe currency and he can buy a loaf of bread with it.
I really thought Mr. Johnson knew better than to suggest reparations. It will never be enough. Let’s not forget that every nationality or ethnic group has been a victim of prejudice at one time or another during America’s long history.
What about the Irish and the Chinese and the Japanese and the Italians and the Poles etc?
Reparations keeps the focus on the past be it real or fiction.
We need to live more in the present to thrive as a nation.
In 2018, there were 280 more black-on-white murders in the US than white-on-black murders. I demand $580 million in reparations from the black community to the white community, $2 million per death.
How about BLM reparations for rioting damages?
...and how did he magically make it, financially?
If the $14 trillion was pledged, and raised, and dispersed, it would only be a down payment. In five years, the MSM would be saying that the $14 trillion was “only a down payment,” and the next demand would be for $28 trillion.
Great idea. Just collect the money from those who actually owned slaves, and pay it to those who actually were slaves.
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