Tell ya what. I'll agree to pay reparations. Here's the deal.
I'll give every native-born black person in America $1 million. In addition, I'll give the same people an additional $1 million for every year that they themselves were slave.
So, if you qualify for being a) black and b) a slave for 12 years, for example, you would receive $13 million.
So far, so good.
I will then deduct the costs of the following:
*The Civil War
*Prisons
*Schools
*Affirmative Action
*Public Housing
*Busing
*Hospitals
*Public Transportation
*Gerrymandered Congressional Districts
*Title IX
*The Welfare State
*Food Stamps
*School Breakfasts and Lunches
*Head Start
*The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department
*The EEOC
*Every Civil Rights lawsuit since Dred Scott
*Pain and Suffering for Jesse, Rev Al, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson and Maxine Waters
*Midnight Basketball
*Crack
*Gang-related Crime
*Gangsta rap-related crime
*Riot-related damages to Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles, New York and any other city with more than 50,000 people where such activities took place.
*Special,one-time "Future Grievance Fee" (+)
(+) this one-time fee is to be pooled to pay for the inevitable lawsuits, protests, etc, that will be lodged when the vast majority of recipients will do something totally against their self-interest with their new found wealth --- like squander it --- and spawn 17 ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC specials on the plight of the unfortunate.
In return, the subject or reparations is to be dropped and the case considered closed, vis-a-vis the historical wrongs of slavery. We agree that the 14th Amendment is in full force (both ways) and that no other lawsuits, grievances, protests, demonstrations, etc. will be had on this subject.
Do I have any takers?
Public transportation???