Posted on 03/12/2021 7:30:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
House Resolution 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, got underway again in mid-February.
It was originally introduced in Congress by John Conyers of Michigan in 1989, then again by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas in 2019, followed by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who presented a companion bill last April. Of particular contention is the claim that white Americans are responsible for the "sin of slavery" and should be made to pay, in order to adequately address and resolve 400 years of racial injustice and inequality, while contending that 5% of all Americans currently residing in the United States are the ancestors white slave-owners in 1860.
Supporters argue that monetary reparations are necessary to correct economic disparity between black and white Americans, the disparity being the root cause of all systemic racism in the United States. Over the course of H.R. 40 discussions in Congress, advocates for reparations have dishonestly paired the enslavement of Africans in the United States, prior to the end of the Civil War in 1865, with the low number of black Americans who currently own homes, along with the disproportionate poverty level among black Americans.
Some have even suggested a correlation with the higher than normal transmission rates of the COVID-19 virus when comparing black Americans who contracted the virus to their white counterparts.
It is the widely held pro-reparations belief that a onetime monetary payment somewhere between $300,000 and $400,000, paid to 45 million black Americans, or an estimated $19-trillion "wealth transfer," will vanquish poverty among black Americans; erase past racial injustice; and, in their opinion, end systemic racism in perpetuity. Numerous proposals are vague on how $19 trillion would be raised for reparation payments.
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Ancestors, or descendants?
Where will they get $19 trillion ? Print it or empty bank accounts ?
In the war on drugs... don’t we target the sellers? Go after the descendants of the African slave sellers first...
Ancestors of slaves.... that would be the African tribal parents? Is this the headline? For they are all long long dead.
Descendants... is that what the “writer” meant?
Just being black does not mean one is a descendant of slaves.
Not at all.
Maybe someone can supply these assclowns with the map from this link:
http://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gitn_1027_Slave-Trade-2.png
Accordingly, 4.4% of the slaves came here to North America. So, how many of today’s ‘poc’ are actually descendent from that number? And why aren’t they demanding the reparations from the tribes that captured them and sold them?
Even more from Emory U at this link:
This just doesn’t add up.
Where the heck will they get 19 trillion?
The gross domestic product is about 20 trillion.
The total value of all the companies on the New York Stock Exchange is said to be somewhere between 30 and 40 trillion. The values fluctuate.
How the heck is it possible to levy any sort of tax which would raise 19 trillion to parcel out as reparations?
Yes— get the ones claiming they should get them— go to the “source” countries who supplied their supposed “ancestors”— the “emerging” african nations we are ALREADY subsidizing and have been for decades.
They won’t want to give up their cash to American nobodies— “their brothers”! There’s a reality check for these lazy idiots.
Also, It is estimated that only 5% of all white Americans in 2021 are direct descendants of the nearly 394,000 slave-owners.
Mathematically speaking, the 5% calculation still used today is based on Census numbers from 160 years ago.
According to published 1860 Census records, there were 33.4 million Americans, counted in 33 states to include 10 territories, with 8 million of the total U.S. population residing in 11 Southern states.
Subtracting the 394,000 Southern state slave-owners (slightly rounded up) from a total of 8 million white Southerners leaves a balance of 7,606,000 people in the combined 11 Southern states who never owned slaves.
Proportionally calculated (394,000 slave owners multiplied by 100 and then divided by the 7,606,000 people), this totals a little more than 5%.
Fast-forward to 2021. Using the same proportional calculation, supposedly there are 16,500,000 direct American descendants of Southern slave-owners (alive today) out of a total of 330 million Americans. The actual number is significantly lower — less than 1% — and aligns with the non-immigrant population Census count percentage increase of people born in the United States since 1860.
Plainly speaking, it’s statistically impossible for each and every one of the 394,000 slave-owners in 1860 to have propagated himself by 41%, increasing the number from 394,000 to over 16 million in 2021, over the course of 160 years.
I will do a reverse Sheriff Bart and say “my grandmother was black on my mother’s side.”
Why are you bothering to talk about it they’re going to to do this no matter what
I’d be willing to pay any ancestor of any slave I ever owned but they’d have to meet me in full solid person mode.
>>How the heck is it possible to levy any sort of tax which would raise 19 trillion to parcel out as reparations?<<
Easy. Drop the dollar as a currency and go to tree leaves. Everyone will be wealthy beyond their dreams.
Ancestors?
Yes we must pay dead people in Africa..................Probably already are.................
The constitution give Congress the power to make scrip out of thin air. Why it chooses to borrow money into existence is a complicated question, but regardless, there is no doubt that Congress can just wave a wand and conjure the cash, poof. No magic involved.
I don't think, off the top of my head, there is any constitutional impediment to given that currency to targeted persons anywhere in the world. Congress practices favoritism all the time, perfectly constitutional.
How about no. You won the lottery by being here. Slave or not.
Ancestors? Is this time travel? Did the author mean to say descendents?
By taxing gun owners?
True. I know some immigrant Africans who came here with their parents as children in the 60’s....................
They can have the money if they leave and never return. I doubt their would be that many takers
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