[2ndDivisionVet]

If we deduct just the $22 trillion dollars spent since LBJ's War on Poverty you'd owe us, I'm thinking.

[GeronL]

$150,000 each, renunciation of citizenship and a airline ticket to their new country!

[Shimmer1]

Also....why even think about giving every single descendant this? Even if you were in favor of reparations, which I am not, for several reasons, you wouldn’t give every descendant what one ancestor would get. And 4 million black slaves? Really? I don’t think so. I don’t believe that number for one second. And how many were slaves for 246 years? 15? 100? Not many. What unadulterated bilge.

[Kozak]

Tack on the cost ( with compounded interest) for the free trip from Africa....

[OldSmaj]

If you were to guess how much the United States owes Black people in economic damages for slavery, how much would it be?

Not one damned penny.

And I will defend that to the death.

[Svartalfiar]

He calculated that value of the stolen labor was $3.7 trillion, or 2 million slaves working 10 hours a day, 365 days a year for 70 years (between 1790 and 1860) at a rate of $7.25 an hour. Applying a 2 percent interest rate compounded annually, he reached the $59.2 trillion figure.

Huh. Per the site below, I get a figure of average wages being between $.09 and $.18 per hour. So that's about 60 times less. Not even gonna get into his other numbers. And, as other posters have mentioned, how should that divvy up? Wouldn't we have to determine a per-slave money, then track descendants and split each slave's money between all their descendants? Of course, each recipient would have any welfare/food stamps/gov handouts fully subtracted from their share first. (Including welfare their ancestors in between received!)

http://outrunchange.com/2012/06/14/typical-wages-in-1860-through-1890/

[publius911]

The Case For Reparations: 40 Acres and a Mule Would Cost America at Least $6.4 Trillion Today

Let's have a vote on that.
I would support the 40 acres and a mule to every ex-slave who shows up and claims them.

The ignorant, stupid, arrogant, entitled thugs with no education, no skills, no language skills and no ability even to dress themselves properly, with not so much as minute under the yoke of slavery,not so much...

[Defiant]

I don’t think 40 acres and a mule to every person who was enslaved would cost us very much.

[DoodleDawg]

This is why reparations make so much sense...

Not to me.

[GenXteacher]

Number 3 in that list is definitely a lie. If anything, the exact opposite is true.

[MuttTheHoople]

However, since most American blacks are part-white (and some descended from Democrat slaveholders who raped their Great-great Grandmothers), they have to have the white part of their reparations deducted.

Also, those of us descended from Union soldiers who liberated the slaves also get a handling charge.

Reparations is great!

[Renkluaf]

White folks have inherited the wealth and privilege derived from free Black labor, which they willingly enjoy today.

Yes, tell that to Bill Gates, the late Steve Jobs, Larry Paige & Sergei Brin yada, yada, yada.

[truth_seeker]

The offer of 40 acres and a mule is no longer on the table.

The value of that has been paid many times over.