California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s

[Rev. Rye]

For the record, I hope this is going To involve social programs that help put black people on an economic even keel with white people. Because I can remember once looking at an article that estimated the cost of reparations: $100 trillion. Looking up the rationale, I found two things:
1) This number was absurdly low because of the fact that they estimated a total of 222,505,049 man-hours unpaid labour for the entire black population over 246 years. This is less than a million man-hours per year for a demographic of millions of people. And, somehow, I get the impression that if slavery was just for less than an hour a year, it wouldn’t have the profound effects it’s had.
2) It was also absurdly high because, depending on how you calculate Global GDP, it’s either more than we have, or is enough to create Wakanda on earth by making everyone on the planet but African Americans so poor that what the world thinks Wakanda is like before the events of Black Panther would be a utopian fantasy.