Working whites have provided trillions in “reparations” over the past decades. Another politically incorrect thought...as bad as slavery was, todays descendents live in the US. Would they prefer having lived for the past 150 years in Zimbabwe? Kenya? Is everything better there...everybody equal and well treated? Lots to eat, with those evil rich people paying the tab? Perhaps the descendents of the slave owners are owed reparations for having brought blacks to the US in the first place! It’s an interesting thought. But of course, far too politically incorrect to be stated, never mind honestly considered.
Why are black Americans supposed to judge themselves or their situations based on African standards? As Americans, should not blacks judge themselves by American standards? Do you judge your conditions based on the standards of another country? Do you cease to complain about high taxes in the U.S. because European nations generally have even higher taxes?
Based on your logic, a black American should not even complain about liberal Democrat policies because even under such policies, blacks in America live better than blacks in African countries.
There are far better arguments against reparations than the “better than in Africa” argument.
Ah, but you forget, when they did so it was a legal item. You know, sort of like cigarettes are today. People howl about how evil they are yet they're still legal and the government still rakes in taxes from the sale(s).