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

[Huggy Bear]

[Rev. Rye]

[awty]

[The Architect Of Fate]

Stop it, money can purchase all of that, funny how when it comes to other groups, no one has a problem with cash...

California city to give transgender and nonbinary residents up to $900 a month

Congrats a city can afford to give trans people a check. That's not really relevant to giving every descendant of slaves a check.

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Estimates for reparations range from 10 to 50 trillion, if we take 20 trillion and divide it by the black population, without even subtracting those that wouldn't qualify, you end up with $500,000 per person, but more than likely it would be distributed according to household, which would equate to two million dollars per household.

I don't think you comprehend the gravity of those numbers

[Rev. Rye]

[Kitan Etos]

The irony, of course, is that the southern territories actually known for slave farms aren't going to implement the reparations to benefit decendents of slaves living in those states.

[Ranjr]

How much are slave descendants out for being black?  What are the damages?  Lower wages.  That's figurable.  More traffic stops.  Hard to quantify due to confounding variables.  The occasional traffic stop turned murder by cop.  Should be payed to individual families, not to all.  So, in general, lower wages.  What else can we add?  

While we're at it.  How much do we owe Mexico for Texas?

[Anomalocaris]

I don't often agree with you, but I think you hit it on the head here.

Hey Thump! Haven't seen you in a while.

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And do you still have enough money to actually take care of a lot of those things? If the answer is yes, are there still a lot of black people who don't? And, to be perfectly blunt, doesn't Western Europe cover a lot of the things Angrboda suggested as a baseline for everybody? And is there a good reason America can't do the same, with the possible exception of "because the Republican Party is vehemently opposed to using the government to actually help people, except maybe if we can somehow produce utopian results almost instantly with minimal effort, and even that's a huge maybe"?

Estimates for reparations range from 10 to 50 trillion, if we take 20 trillion and divide it by the black population, without even subtracting those that wouldn't qualify, you end up with $500,000 per person, but more than likely it would be distributed according to household, which would equate to two million dollars per household.

I think you believe this idiocy for the same reason that you imagine black people consist entirely of supposedly highly valuable melanin, and have no other constituent components.   Not brains, bones, internal organs, muscles, blood and other bodily fluids, tendons, ligaments and connective tissues, whatsoever.

I can’t say for your other parts, but you certainly correct in that you have no brains now.   I also can’t say whether you were born with melanin instead of brains, or if some transformation occurred that turned your brain into melanin after you’ve irradiated with glowing image of imagery dollar signs.

[Huggy Bear]

And, just for the record, $20 trillion is almost the entire GDP of America. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't aware of that or the implications, because if you were, what you're basically asking for is a revanchist system where the balance of power is reversed and we basically have even worse inequality than we do now (except with black people not being the one suffering this time.)

It doesn't have to be paid all at once, we'll accept a payment plan...

[Rev. Rye]