Posted on 02/18/2021 8:50:43 AM PST by RightGeek
Researchers at Harvard Medical School claim that reparations could have slashed coronavirus transmission by as much as 68 percent in Louisiana, had minority American households received as much as $850,000 each prior to the pandemic.
A group of scholars led by Dr. Eugene Richardson and Dr. Momin Malik looked at differences in frontline work and overcrowded housing by race and used it to compare Louisiana, a racially and socioeconomically diverse state, with South Korea, a more racially and economically homogenous country. Their peer-reviewed study was published by the academic journal Social Science & Medicine.
The authors proposed a "reparations plan" for descendants of slaves in the amounts of $800,000 per household or $250,000 per person, which they claim could have lessened the spread of coronavirus by helping eliminate the racial wealth gap. Though most proposals for reparations have generally been limited to the descendants of people enslaved in the United States, the researchers wrote:
"All Black Americans, both those descended from persons enslaved in the US and those who are recent immigrants to the US, have a moral claim to reparations for the effects of ongoing systemic racism."
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When the local witch doctor was arrested for dancing naked in the streets to keep the rampaging elephants away from downtown Chicago he was told there were no elephants.
He replied by saying his dancing was extremely effective.
So how much does an eight ball cost with a forty now a days?
And after that $800K was paid out the dollar would collapse to the point where we’d have to print billion dollar bills...just like Zimbabwe.
800K per household! LOL! If only I can get that for the Britons enslaving my people!
How about those who were left behind in Africa? Surely they should get something for selling their fellow blacks into slavery.
Apart from reparations, they owe us royalties for using inventions that exist due to western civilization – iPods, computers, automobiles, basic sanitation, hospitals and modern medicine in general, Rule of Law, the concept of “human rights,” abundant food and so forth. By this calculation, blacks owe whites a lot.
This article is so bad it should have been posted in chat.
Is Harvard Medical School accredited?
Has the school been dumbed down over the years?
And MY ancestors fought against slavery for their own religious reasons. Can I get a check from harvard because I want to avoid the Chinese flu?
Baloney. Some are still stuck on stupid.
Anybody who encourages their child to attend Harvard should be jailed for child abuse!
Gee, if each of us had our own mansions, private jets, and robot butlers, we might have gotten Covid transmission rates down to nearly zero!
Using a rounded “Black Only” (i.e., racially 100% black; excludes mixed race) population of 44 million and a payout amount of $250 k/person, the amount to implement the doctors’ proposal is $11 trillion, about half the annual GDP of the United States.
The amount required would be less if the payout is capped at $850k per household which is equal to 3.4 persons.
The amount required goes up if the 4 million plus Americans claiming partial black ancestry are included.
To benchmark the amount, $250k is the equivalent of about 4.8 years of the average annual full time salary.
“...$850,000 each?” Partay! Whew! That would make for a few nights of fireworks and fun!
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