I don’t know if the Liberian experiment included government money. But here’s the thing: There are 330,000,000 people living in the US of which 18% (59,400,000) are black. If you pay each person $200,000 that works out to $11,880,000,000 dollars (more money than there is in the US, I’m guessing). But, given the cost over time of trying to address/solve the “Black Problem” in the country, wouldn’t you say that that stands to benefit all in the long run? Think of the savings on social programs, in the constant upgrading/re-upgrading certain poverty zones, in our criminal justice system/policing. My understanding is that we’ve spent trillions on all of these since the beginning of the Great Society.
And with 11 trillion dollars, Blacks could create for themselves a fairly nice little country/economy (or at least begin one).
Absolutely, 11 trillion would be a small price to pay to ensure future tranquility.
But no one in the North would pay the equivalent amount 170 years ago to buy the freedom of the slaves. It was proposed.
The real hangup that caused the war was compensating the owners for their "property". Had that been done, it never would have started.
Sherman was the guy who roped off the Georgia seaboard for reparations land and "forty acres and a mule". Special Order 15, it was. But it was countermanded and fell apart: See Forty Acres and a Mule . A lot of compensation schemes have been tried and failed or shot down.