$64 trilion dollars now. It climbs fast.
We already gave them about $22 trillion just since LBJ’s administration along with hundreds of thousands dead in the civil war and hundreds of thousands dead from black crime. That sounds like $64 trillion to me. Or we could buy some land and mules from ISIS and settle them there.
The real number is a bizillion.
The good news is that ANYONE can declare themselves as Black!
I was only considering my attachment to the Indian Nation since lizzy warren linked high cheekbones to American Indians — like her, I wanted access to special scholarships and a thumb on the scale to get ahead in every position.
Now, I see a little hair-curling means I am a BLACK, with every reparation and victim buck that go with it.
I retroactively want my college loans reworked since I am now BLACK and want repayment for that time when I was perceived as white.
2ndDivisionVet: "We already gave them about $22 trillion just since LBJ’s administration..."
So where do we even begin with such nonsense?
How about here: $64 trillion is a ridiculous number which equates to $1.7 million for every black man, woman and child.
In no conceivable way does "40 acres and a mule" for a black family in 1865 equate to $1.7 million per black individual today.
The actual today's value of "40 acres and a mule" of farmland away from big cities is circa $50,000.
And the number of black families eligible might be ten million, out of 38 million total blacks in the US.
So, ten million families times $50,000 is not $64 trillion, it's $500 billion, which to me sounds like chump change in a Federal budget over $3 trillion per year.
Indeed, according to this article, we already spend $500 billion twice per year in various forms of welfare to poor in general, African-Americans specifically.
That article puts the total tab for the "war on poverty" at now one trillion per year, overall since 1964: $15 trillion.
The article estimates that during the past 10 years, US governments have spent a total of $1 million per poor family of four, of all races.
So it seems to me this reparations debt has been paid in full many times, and most importantly, has done nothing to reduce our rate of poverty.