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BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery
CNBC ^ | June 1, 2020 | Matthew J. Belvedere

Posted on 06/01/2020 9:23:49 AM PDT by C19fan

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis.

“Now is the time to go big” to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Johnson said on “Squawk Box.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: raparations; slavery
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sure...as soon as blacks repay the cost of lives lost, people maimed and wounded property lost or destroyed and the money spent to free them from slavery. When “they” can figure all that out and its accomplished...then we can talk about the other.


61 posted on 06/01/2020 9:53:20 AM PDT by woofer2425
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To: C19fan

Nope

If you want money collect it from the dead


62 posted on 06/01/2020 9:53:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: C19fan
Start with his billion as an experiment.

Just forcefully confiscate his money and give it away.

In six months, every neighborhood will look EXACTLY THE SAME, with EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEMS.

63 posted on 06/01/2020 9:54:53 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (I don't owe you my freedom.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Nothing will ever satisfy them

Implacable

Plus they will never give up the race card therefore nothing will ever be enough

just strip em of citizenship and fly them back to the superior homelands of africa


64 posted on 06/01/2020 9:54:55 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

That’s astonishingly bad math, and your statistics are suspect as well.


65 posted on 06/01/2020 9:56:05 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot
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To: C19fan

Give it to them! Then END ALL WELFARE PAYMENTS AND PROGRAMS! ALL OF THEM! Not a single solitary taxpayer dime to any welfare programs. This would actually be a good thing in my opinion. Sink or swim time kiddies.


66 posted on 06/01/2020 9:56:39 AM PDT by Mathews (ItÂ’s all gravy, baby!)
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To: shelterguy

And my grandparents came from Sicily in the 1900s.

In fact I think we were the slaves in Italy


67 posted on 06/01/2020 9:56:58 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (You can never be truly safe unless you are truly free)
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To: falcon99

Excellent


68 posted on 06/01/2020 9:57:50 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: C19fan

Since my great-great-grandfather died fighting against slavery in the Civil War, where do they send my check??


69 posted on 06/01/2020 10:00:06 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: C19fan

They’ve already received since 1964, almost 30 trillion via welfare , Medicaid, food stamps, housing etc etc etc.

All it has done is destroy families, increased crime and create a class of uncivilized violent people.


70 posted on 06/01/2020 10:03:03 AM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), social media, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: C19fan

Let those slaves come forward and get their reparations.


71 posted on 06/01/2020 10:03:14 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: C19fan

I was wondering how long it would take for this!


72 posted on 06/01/2020 10:04:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government more than the Chinese bug.)
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To: C19fan

If we do that I’m buying stock in Nike and Sony


73 posted on 06/01/2020 10:07:17 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: C19fan

The fellow is worth $600 million. How was he able to make that since the US is racist....


74 posted on 06/01/2020 10:10:40 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: C19fan
to help reduce racial inequality

The inequality is based in DNA. So is Johnson calling for a moonshot program based on CRISPR? I doubt it.

In any event, have the Federal Reserve print the money, and is redeemable only when applied for from African or Caribbean soil and with both a foreign passport and a cancelled US passport.

75 posted on 06/01/2020 10:13:26 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: C19fan

Pretty sure that the “reparations” paid from 1965 to the present have more than covered that bill, and the costs incurred by crime committed, and court/imprisonment expenses incurred on behalf of, that “community” should cover the interest. In fact, I think the rest of us are owed a significant refund.


76 posted on 06/01/2020 10:13:30 AM PDT by katana
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To: C19fan

....there were blacks in the south that owned slaves....

yes I know: when whites own blacks it’s a crime against humanity. When blacks own blacks, it’s forgivable.


77 posted on 06/01/2020 10:13:47 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: C19fan

GFY


78 posted on 06/01/2020 10:14:07 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (uNACA)
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To: C19fan

I’d say the hundreds of thousands of white Americans that gave their lives to free the slaves in the civil war are reparations enough.


79 posted on 06/01/2020 10:14:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: C19fan

It wouldn’t matter if it was $114 trillion. No amount will satisfy the race hustlers. If white America turned over every home, business, bank account and agreed to become slaves to blacks as “reparations”, it still wouldn’t be enough. People raised on hate aren’t likely to change. I say pound sand with your demands Bobby. For decades, I’ve paid taxes that were transferred to blacks, been overlooked for promotion because of affirmative action, been told how hateful and evil I am for being white.

Enough. Your words fall on deaf ears. I have no longer any sympathy for you or your “cause”. At some point you will get along or it will get ugly. Looting the latest pair of Air Jordan’s will be the least of your worries. Stop poking the bear with a stick.


80 posted on 06/01/2020 10:17:31 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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