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To: Kaiser8408a
... Cory Bush’s $14 TRILLION Reparations Demand ...

The "good" thing about this is that it is so outrageous that no sane person could seriously consider it.
(Of course that still leaves all the dems.)

11 posted on 05/20/2023 8:36:47 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Save the Republic - VOTE TRUMP!!!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

$14 TRILLION

That’s probably about $400 per pound of cotton produced.

A slave produced about 1,300 pounds of cotton/year (436,631 slaves/535 million pounds of cotton).

https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/cotton-in-a-global-economy-mississippi-1800-1860

There were other costs to producing that cotton besides the slaves: transport, management, doctoring, tools, finance, etc.

There are about 20 descendants for each slave, so the reparations for each slave would have to be split 20 ways.


13 posted on 05/20/2023 9:10:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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