If this proposal were taken seriously, nobody would hear the word "qualifications." What Keyes has done is open the door, and laid the predicate for, exempting every black in America from income taxes for seventy years.
They would simply include a definition of "descendent of slave" that was broad enough to include any detectable amout of black parentage.
Once they get that zinger into the definitions section of the document, it's all by the book -- it really does restrict it to "the descendents of slaves" -- why, look, it says so right here in the law, in writing!
Lawmaking really is at times just like sausagemaking.
As to the time limit, there won't be any. I jokingly invoked "million man math" in an earlier post, to "prove" that "two generations" equalled "244 years". In reality, it would suffer no such limitation. We'd see exactly what we see whenever any "temporary" law is up for expiration -- either a massive call for "renewal", or, a "stealth renewal".
How many "temporary" taxes were due to expire at the end of WWUII?
We've got one "temporary" tax, I think on telephone service, that goes all the way back to the Spanish-American War!
To invoke a word that's been flogged to hell and back in this thread, "realpolitik" considerations will ensure that any such "temporary" tax amnesty will remain "part of our treasured heritage" after "two generations" of being "law of the land".
Anyone even thinking of trying to "remove this right from the people" will suffer a fate that no rational person would even want to contemplate. It would be easier to order people "back to the back of the bus" than to "strip away a civil right that has been part of their lives, their childrens lives, and their parents lives for all of their lives."
You'll see then-contemporary Jackson-Sharpton clones raving about "rich white folks taking food out of the mouths of our most disadvantaged children", and "regressive taxation scheme intended to benefit the most wealthy at the expense of the poorest members of society", and "What crime did these poor people commit, that you would want to punish them, for no reason at all, by saddling them with a massive taxation scheme, that would only serve to benefit the descendants of their wealthy slave masters?"
No, once established, it will be a permanent fixture of our "lunar" landscape. It will be the crowning glory of lunatic legislation, and while it may serve as a foundation for additional "reparative measures", NWIH will it ever be rolled back. It just ain't gonna happen.
Of course, as so many have pointed out, "reparations" ain't gonna happen.
The main proponents of this obscenity have no delusions of actually succeeding in imposing it on the nation.
They are merely using it as a very effective form of agitprop, to stir up their consituency, consolidate their power over their constituency, and, of course, engender a particularly noxious form of class warfare -- one that, if successfull, will destroy what's left of the social fabric of the country.
And again, by "successful", I do not mean to imply "if successfully passed into law", because it ain't gonna happen. I mean, "if successfully used as an agitprop tool, to destroy the country."