We have had a weird year from the Pandemic all the way up to murder bees and now nationwide protests. Our economy is still very much in the recovery phase as we have about 25% of the working population unemployed due to the lockdowns. But BET founder Robert Johnson claims he has the solution. He wants to bring our economy to its knees by having our government payout $14 trillion in reparations. They still haven’t done a second COVID relief check and somehow they think America can afford to pay out just the African Americans?
“The founder of Black Entertainment Television says the federal government should pay out $14 trillion to black Americans as reparations for slavery.
Robert Johnson, a billionaire, said Monday on CNBC that the wealth disparity in the U.S. and police brutality against blacks are the cause of violent protests across the country. To fix the problem, pay out trillions, Johnson said.
“Now is the time to go big,” he said. “Wealth transfer is what’s needed. Think about this. Since 200-plus-years or so of slavery, labor taken with no compensation, is a wealth transfer. Denial of access to education, which is a primary driver of accumulation of income and wealth, is a wealth transfer.”
“Calling reparations the “affirmative action program of all time,” Johnson said they would send the signal that white Americans acknowledge “damages that are owed” for the unequal playing field created by slavery and the decades since with a “wealth transfer to white Americans away from African Americans.”
“Damages is a normal factor in a capitalist society for when you have been deprived for certain rights,” he said. “If this money goes into pockets like the [coronavirus] stimulus checks … that money is going to return back to the economy” in the form of consumption. There will also be more black-owned businesses, he added.”
So Johnson wants to reward the black community for protesting with trillions of dollars? Geez, now that’s some wishful thinking. Reparations at this point are ridiculous. There haven’t been slaves in over a Century, at this point it is relatives and distant relatives at best that would be getting reparation. Are we next going to pay the Irish for the poor treatment they received or the Japanese for being rounded up during WW2? There have been many bad things that have happened throughout history, but we need to move forward we can’t afford to pay reparations for something that happened so long ago that there is not anyone left who firsthand experienced it. And paying people to stop protesting sets a horrible precedent.
Give them 14 trillion in installments as long as they buy their drugs from the government. That way the 14 trillion will go back to the gov. quickly….lol
“BOB CAT” knows how to make all the riots go away….just make all the black rioters millionaires and that will settle them down….that way all the working class whites will be the slaves….working for 7.25 per hour…right BOBBY ?
NEVER!!! you are a total fool if you think that will work… what a dink
Better Plan.
The whiners can GROW UP and act like CITIZENS OF THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH, or the can RENOUNCE THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND LEAVE!
None of my Ancestors ever owned slaves, but the descendants of former slaves OWE THIS NATION FOR THE DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE over the last 5 decades!
For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.
The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.
Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No to Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.
Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.
Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.
Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue it’s a problem of culture, as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.
But since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India, people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country’s violent crime, crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism. The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility.
Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.,.,
I have come to the conclusion that enacting of the so-called “civil-rights” acts were mistakes. The more “rights” these black bastards demand, the more they complain and make demands not available to whites. When whites become a “minority” in our own country, do you think the “civil-rights” acts will benefit us? I think not…
When whites become a minority, this country is finished. All one has to do is look at Zimbabwe, South Africa, and other black-run “basket cases”. This is our future…
That being said…
The term “racism” was invented by communists, and is used to destroy cultures and defuse (and render impotent) those with differing points-of-view on “racial” issues.
True “racism” is desirable as it merely cements cultural and social bonds that are necessary for a society to function and flourish.
True “racism” merely denotes commonality of purpose and advancement within each respective racial group.
Blacks have the NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanics have La Raza and Mecha, Jews have the $PLC, ACLU and ADL. These are all “racist” organizations that serve to promote the interests (and political power) of their respective races.
It is only whites who are castigated and threatened for attempting to show any signs of racial solidarity.
Let’s look at what us “evil, privileged” whites have done for Western society and the world:
1. “Civil-rights (for some)” laws (that effectively destroy “freedom of association” for whites, but not for other races) and do not apply to whites–only “people of color” are covered by these so-called “civil-rights (for some)” protections.
2. “Affirmative action” policies (that push better qualified whites out of positions and jobs that they would ordinarily qualify for) in favor of lesser-qualified minorities. In fact, “affirmative action” policies actually damage those minorities who are quite capable of “making it on their own” because they get “lumped in” with the groups that cannot make it on their own without “help”,
3. “Contract set-asides” (that are specifically targeted for minorities (that white people are prohibited from bidding on) and immigration policies (that specifically exclude whites, most of who have skills that would benefit the USA) in favor of those from the third-world (with no marketable skills).
4. Scholarships that specify particular ethnic groups are looked upon favorably by most people, save one–scholarships that are intended for whites only are looked upon as being “racist”, and therefore impermissible and improper in today’s racially-charged climate of “political correctness”.
NO OTHER RACE (BUT WHITES) HAS (EVER) BENT OVER BACKWARDS to assure that all non-white races receive a “fair shake” in being a part of American life, even to the detriment and social well-being of “our own kind” (whites).
Whites possess an externalized altruism that no other races possesses. This externalized altruism that “looks out for the other guy” will be the demise of the white race. This altruism needs to be internalized and focused inward, just as other races have done. There is NO SHAME in looking out for one’s own kind.
I blame those of the “greatest generation” for selling out our birthright with the passage of the “Civil-Rights Acts” of 1957 and 1964, and the “Hart-Cellar immigration act of 1965”. To those of the “greatest generation” (who are still alive) thanks for NOTHING…
Let’s not forget that “freedom of association” (but only affecting the white majority) was eviscerated by the enacting of these clearly unconstitutional acts.
“Multiculturalism” and “diversity” are code-words for white genocide.
As us whites comprise approximately 11.5% of the world’s population, it is us whites who should be considered an “endangered species” and should be nurtured and protected, not vilified and marginalized.
Is this guy playing with a full deck? Pay black who were not slaves. That sounds stupid. If they want to leave send them back to Africa and pay for the ticket. Bet that won’t happen. And no I’am not a prejudice person.
Just give them jobs, better schooling and housing. That is what Trump is doing That’s all the black ppl want. Democrats can’t have that tho. But say what if they did get reparations what happens when they spend the money, What would they have.
Then pay all the ancestors who died freeing the slaves.
So, he is a billionaire. If he wants a “wealth transfer”, he is certainly welcome to use his own.
Lol now that’s funny. Democrats only want to spend taxpayer money.
I’m sorry but we’ve been paying them reparations for 50# years in the form of welfare, job set asides and affirmative action.
LBJ started it all.
That’s 14 trillion the middle class will have to pay. About 47% of the people in this country don’t even pay taxes. So they won’t have to pay. The rich are only about 2% of this country and they can afford it. The middle class blacks won’t pay. They’ll find a way to exempt all the minorities. The majority will be paid by the middle class white people who will go bankrupt(as will the country). I’m not white. I’m Puerto Rican but they had plenty of slavery in Puerto Rico. How do I know that My distant relatives were not slave traders? But suppose I do have such relatives? What does that have to do with me? I have never owned a slave. I’m not responsible for distant relatives that I know nothing about. I’m responsible for me. I’m not responsible for what my own father did. Nobody gave me a choice to be born into that family. I wouldn’t pay.
STFU you racist pig.
Globalist Soros and his minions the Deep State NAZI Commie liberal party, Fake news, Antifa, CIA, FBI, Hollywood Rats, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, The useful idiots, RINOs etc…are responsible for this rioting and destruction throughout the country. This treasonous act should not go unpunished! It’s about time these deep State rats are held accountable! Patriots, we need to save the country from turning into another Commie shit hole just like all the other lib run cities!!
Since only 10% of the African trans Atlantic slaves came to what is now the USA, the 90% should get 9 times that amount from South, Middle America and Caribbean Countries. $126 trillion should help solve the economic problems South of the Border..
Wait, you say, US GDP is $21 trillion but those countries total GDP is only $4 trillion. It isn’t fair US would pay only 67% of GDP while those other slave countries would pay 3150%.
To which I’d laugh and say, maybe slavery wasn’t the economic benefit it’s made out to be but actually an anchor on the economy. Maybe someone should pay a tax on the benefit of living here even if they ancestor were brought here against their will? Why don’t we just call it even and like most born here and definitely those who legally immigrated here, be thankful every day to be here.
The ONLY WAY the Democrat Party maintains power is by enslaving blacks. Physical, mentally, and financially. They have corralled on the plantation.