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BET billionaire Robert Johnson calls for $14T in reparations — and wants a check too
NYPost ^ | 06/30/2021 | Lee Brown

Posted on 06/30/2021 7:25:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: mrmeyer

We are in one now in case you haven’t noticed.

This attempt at extortion might help escalate it into actual battles when the bank accounts get cleaned out.


101 posted on 06/30/2021 10:18:03 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Highest Authority

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102 posted on 06/30/2021 10:36:38 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$14 trillion divided by 333 million = @$42k per person in the US population.

That’s the bill due according to Mr. Johnson.

Using 33 million (@1/10) as the basis of the payout, it works out to approximately $425k per person. Typical family of 4 = $1.7 million.

Average annual income is @$52k. So the estimated individual payout is equivalent to @8.15 years income; the family of 4 amount is equivalent to 32.7 years.

An ancillary question to be answered is: over how long a period of time?

$14 trillion is approximately 72% of current US GDP.

Since the damage took centuries to accrue, perhaps 100 years to repay (with the unpaid balance being considered part of the deceased person’s estate)? So, $14 trillion divided by 33 million payees divided by 100 years = @$ 4200/year or $353/month per payee.

(BTW, having more children would only serve to dilute the individual payments since the amount to be paid out would be fixed.)

Those are some very rough numbers to give some initial framework for discussing the issue.


103 posted on 06/30/2021 11:10:15 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would pay the 14 trillion, and pay it gladly (it’s only little green slips of paper, and we have lots of paper), but only under an agreement, or treaty if you will, that leads to an invoice marked “paid in full”.


104 posted on 06/30/2021 11:13:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
This attempt at extortion might help escalate it into actual battles when the bank accounts get cleaned out

Your bank accounts were cleaned out in 1971, you just haven't noticed yet.

105 posted on 06/30/2021 11:15:25 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: rktman

I am lily white yet back down the road there is some black blood in my veins and DNA. I want my check too... My wife looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost but she can trace herself to being 5/16 Cherokee, where’s her check?

Is this reparation’s check going to be given out based on the darkness of the skin? This has all kinds of pitfalls on top of being insane right off the bat.


106 posted on 06/30/2021 12:44:36 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: River Hawk

I think that is part of the plan.


107 posted on 06/30/2021 12:51:33 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: butlerweave

I notice he is not giving his billions to his fellow blacks...!


108 posted on 06/30/2021 12:54:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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Classic virtue signaling. Ignore my skin color, wealth, and accomplishments...I was lucky like Oprah.


109 posted on 07/01/2021 8:29:59 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP ( )
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