[Geno]

Originally Posted by Answer

Reparations wouldn't really accomplish anything. You could give every person in the country with more than 1/16th of african-american heritage 100 million dollars and the racial relations between white and black people would still continue to be what it is. It's not like black people would say "Now that we got this money, we can call it even and forget that slavery shit", it would still continue to be their identity in America. White people would still be in the majority of policy-making positions where they can tax and control as necessary and white people would continue to be the majority of the U.S. population in general. The systemic segregation that already exists would still exist. Black males would still be perceived as a threat and criminalized and killed at disproportionate rates. White people would still control media, corporations, and 100 million is still less than 1% of Jeff Bezos net worth. The people who are the top of the world's wealthiest really aren't bothered by others with that kind of money, that's an NFL salary.

Realistically what would happen is the people who are already at the top 100 wealthiest, along with a select few people from the smartest/best-connected 1% of black people would find a way to accumulate all of that wealth for themselves by making everyone else customers, because that's exactly how capitalism has always worked.


also lol @ wanting land. it's 2020, not the 1800's. The fuck you gonna do with land. Gonna grow some crops and ride your mule

Agreed. It would only make things worse IMO.. Add fuel to the fire per se