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Robert L. Johnson, the founder of BET and Americas first Black billionaire, is pushing for a $14 trillion reparations proposal.
From VICE, "Americas First Black Billionaire Wants His Reparations Check, Now":
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and Americas first Black billionaire, wants a check. He wants it from the government. And he wants it to come with an apology for slavery, Jim Crow, and hundreds of years of racism.
The 75-year-old media magnate owns several homes, heads an asset management firm, and was the first Black person to own a majority stake in an NBA team. He doubts that check will ever come, but he sees a new kind of reparations -- being called by a different name so as not be "divisive" or controversial" -- happening already.
[...] "Reparations would require the entire country to ... admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism and for that reason Black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying Black people of all stripes -- the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle -- out of our pocket," Johnson says.
How about you pay $14 trillion in reparations to the US government and apologize for all the damage you've caused by pushing a society-destroying guns, drugs and gang culture on your own community for profit?
#1: TommyTheMadArtist To: Horse (#0)
Here is why. When slavery ended, blacks had a choice. Go back to the place that enslaved them, or live free in America.
While there have been profound issues, the question is whether or not their lives and their descendents are better off here than in Africa must also be answered.
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-30 18:30:07 Reply Private Reply
#2: Lod To: Horse (#0)
Lod posted on 2021-06-30 22:31:50 Reply Private Reply