U.S. government should pay $14 trillion
in reparations to Black Americans, say
authors William Darity and Kirsten Mullen
CNBC,
by
Macklin Fishman
&
Cheyenne Devon
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/28/2023 8:59:34 AM
To help close the racial wealth gap, the U.S. government should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans, according to William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, authors of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.” In an interview with CNBC, Darity, a Duke University professor, and Mullen, a folklorist and writer, said the federal government is financially responsible because it was culpable for the enslavement of Black Americans and legal segregation in the United States. Mullen said “the federal government was party” to both the suppression of the Black vote and in some
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/28/2023 9:03:50 AM (No. 1389216)
Darity! Mullen! You first. THEN, and only then, I'll think about it. If you feel so guilty - be my guest.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/28/2023 9:05:27 AM (No. 1389219)
Notice how the amount demanded keeps going higher and higher. There really is no end to their greed and avarice.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/28/2023 9:08:52 AM (No. 1389221)
Fine. Then they can pay me welfare.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/28/2023 9:09:12 AM (No. 1389222)
After the CIvil War, blacks each got forty acres and a mule. White families got their dead sons and husbands back, if they could be found. Screw you people, I owe you nothing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Namma 1/28/2023 9:14:22 AM (No. 1389228)
I agree with Clint Eastwood. " I never owned slaves, and you never picked cotton!"
#4 is correct. My ancestors never got the body of their son back from the war. They could not afford the cost of bringing him back.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/28/2023 9:15:19 AM (No. 1389230)
When will 14 trillion dollars not be worth 14 trillion? When it is wasted away on actions like reparations. Go ahead! Destroy the country! That is what actions like this are designed to do.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Phantomll 1/28/2023 9:21:02 AM (No. 1389237)
YGBSM!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/28/2023 9:22:50 AM (No. 1389239)
The DimoKKKrap Party should pay it. That organization did it.
Why does that group get a pass? Has any DimoKKKrap ever apologized for what was done by them?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/28/2023 9:24:07 AM (No. 1389240)
No slaves are alive today if you find any pay them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 1/28/2023 9:25:19 AM (No. 1389243)
Make it $140 trillion and you have a deal.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Tennman 1/28/2023 9:26:33 AM (No. 1389247)
April 1st already?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 1/28/2023 9:27:20 AM (No. 1389248)
Lol
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/28/2023 9:30:37 AM (No. 1389254)
Most people would believe that University Professors are pretty smart people.
Here we have 2 people teaching our youth who have fecal material for brains.
The United States of America has a 31 Trillion dollar debt. A debt we cannot even afford to pay the interest on,and these 2 morons want to print out 14 Trillion dollars more to pay off a race of people who have been receiving reparations in the form of Affirmative action jobs, Welfare, and Education all along.
This is the caliber of idiot we have teaching our youth.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 1/28/2023 9:40:13 AM (No. 1389266)
Blacks already got their reparations what with trillions spent over the last 60 years for every possible government program to benefit them. If we're going to talk about reparations for something that was eliminated over 150 years ago, how about reparations for the families of the 400,000+ white union soldiers who died freeing blacks from slavery.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/28/2023 9:48:14 AM (No. 1389274)
If these blacks want spending money, they can get an education and a job!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/28/2023 10:00:06 AM (No. 1389286)
Why stop at trillions? For all dat sufferin' doze folks have had, it should be in the bazillions, Wakanda dollars, of course.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
paral04 1/28/2023 10:00:08 AM (No. 1389287)
14$ Trillion for what? Blacks have already collected that since the Johnson Administration when the majority of them went on welfare and have never come off.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/28/2023 10:10:48 AM (No. 1389295)
Why is this garbage published?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ruhn 1/28/2023 10:13:23 AM (No. 1389297)
How many lives were lost, both Union and Confederate, during the War Between the States? Conservative estimate is 620,000 killed, not including wounded. Some estimates are as high as 850,000. More Americans were killed in that war alone than all previous wars combined until Vietnam. In any event, 2% of the total population died from that war over the question of slavery. That would be 6 million lives lost relative to our current population.
Reparations for slavery? No. That ransom was paid for in blood over 150 years ago by our forefathers in a war that no civilization before or since that fought internally over the question of slavery.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/28/2023 10:16:11 AM (No. 1389299)
Be patient. I'm still waiting on reparations from the Roman Empire
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 1/28/2023 10:16:18 AM (No. 1389300)
I'm all for paying every single former slave, still alive today, who was held in chains up until Lincoln freed the slaves. Every one still alive. Step forward. Anyone? Anyone?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Msquared112 1/28/2023 10:23:45 AM (No. 1389310)
How about paying reparations to MY Jewish compatriots who were discriminated against in America? How about reparations to the Irish and the Chinese in America? Blacks need to get over this already
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
janjan 1/28/2023 10:23:52 AM (No. 1389311)
A nice windfall for 13.5% of the population who were never slaves paid for on the backs of people (vast majority) who don’t even have an ancestor who owned slaves. We owe them nothing but they have been given much.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
padiva 1/28/2023 10:26:50 AM (No. 1389320)
Hey! Go start a GoFundMe account.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2023 10:44:48 AM (No. 1389338)
No.
You weren't a slave, and we weren't slave owners. We owe you NOTHING.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/28/2023 10:50:50 AM (No. 1389345)
OP, we are well on our way to becoming Zimbabwe now, reparations or not due to the massive and unchecked invasion of our country.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/28/2023 10:51:51 AM (No. 1389346)
You know, I would back reparations if they added one thing:
You are given your reparations check as you board the plane for your new country of residence and your U.S. passport, with citizenship, is revoked upon your arrival there.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/28/2023 11:03:05 AM (No. 1389362)
Okay, then let’s go back and give reparations to the family of every salve in every nation on this planet since the beginning of time. This is nothing more at best a shakedown and at worst an evil way to drive an even more dangerous division in the country and throughout the West. It no doubt it is a combination of both.
Since life was created on this planet the strong have taken the weaker as slaves. That fact does not make it right but it is reality. Slavery was a lucrative way to make a living and unfortunately still is in many parts of the world. How can we ignore the suffering of hundreds of thousands if not millions of men, women and children of every color and creed living in bondage right now? Human nature is brutal and will be as long as human beings draw breath. Righting the past at the expense of the present seems to be the ultimate sin of depraved indifference to real time suffering. This has nothing to do with compassion or righting wrongs. It is just a bad idea by ungrateful people out for some quick cash who won’t even acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of white men who fought bled and died for the freedom of blacks simply because they knew it was an abomination and wished to abolish it. Where do the families of these men go to get even a thank you?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
marbles 1/28/2023 11:09:05 AM (No. 1389366)
This has always been the way of the left, throw money at whatever the " problem " is. No solution, just money.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
valinva 1/28/2023 11:27:56 AM (No. 1389383)
I agree with this proposal. The government should create a new tax that is levied on all White Liberals who agree with this proposal and the money should come from them to be used exclusively for this purpose. You would have to voluntarily sign up for the tax so it would not run afoul of the equal treatment under the law clause. Go for it leftists.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
FormerDem 1/28/2023 12:11:10 PM (No. 1389406)
Considering they have forgotten the blood already poured out for their freedom, and considering they slander the motives of those who went to their aid back then, I don't think this is going to build peace or reconciliation. And it isn't fair in any case. If you want to find the descendants of slaveowners past, look to the Black community. The rest of the country are in large part newcomers since slavery was over. In short. No. Our ancestors died for you. Taking note of your flat out ingratitude, I am going to avoid this topic forever so I do not lose my temper. What I won't do, is support your slanders of those who died for you. The only use in helping you is to please God. You remember nothing. ... but He does.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/28/2023 12:18:40 PM (No. 1389409)
This is all part of a project to destroy Western economy so the elite Marxists in the WEF and CCP can completely take over and build it back as a world-dominating communist/feudal government with themselves permanently installed in the castles at the top. That is literally their vision for the "great reset."
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Aklon70 1/28/2023 12:26:40 PM (No. 1389419)
If you were personally actually a slave, the yes, we'll give you some money.
If you weren't yourself a slave, get out and stop wasting our time.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 1/28/2023 12:28:51 PM (No. 1389422)
If that's the case, then recipients forfeit any and all government handouts for life. We'll see who can manage the money.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Miceal 1/28/2023 12:41:20 PM (No. 1389434)
Not one red cent...
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
mjwall69 1/28/2023 12:41:34 PM (No. 1389435)
Yeah, good idea. The inflation that would result from that would me you'll need every dime they give to buy a loaf of bread. Freakin idiots.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 1/28/2023 1:00:30 PM (No. 1389440)
“Democrat Party should pay reparations to Black Americans”
There, fixed the headline . . .
Democrats were responsible for the institution of slavery up to the end of the Civil War, then resistance to post-Civil War Reconstruction efforts, then the propagation of Jim Crow laws and resistance to integration starting the 1950s and to civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Dim “social welfare” policies continue to keep many Black Americans in a condition of virtual slavery (dependence) even today.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
singermom9 1/28/2023 1:05:36 PM (No. 1389443)
Funny how they all talk abt slavery but there is slavery today and no one seems to care to help the slaves of today. See they do NOT care abt slavery or want to help those enslaved today. They just want the bucks.
How abt you clean up your criminal culture FIRST. Why would we give you money? You already stole that much and more? So we give you money and you keep stealing and screaming at us? Forget it. And stop calling everything racist.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/28/2023 1:18:56 PM (No. 1389448)
NFW Darity and Mullen. After subtracting all the trillions spent on the War on Poverty, etc., you guys owe us not the other way around.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/28/2023 1:53:23 PM (No. 1389461)
Let's see, $14 Trillion less all the handouts, affirmative action and all the other give away's, well that's interesting, when we subtract all the "Reparations" they have already gotten it leaves about 3 cents per person...I can support that!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/28/2023 2:00:20 PM (No. 1389464)
Here's your "reparations":
618,222 Total Civil War Dead
360,222 Union
258,000 Confederate
Using the Federal Aviation Administration's very conservative $200,000 amount for human life lost in plane accidents applied to the above, blacks owe the relatives of Union dead $72B for the privilege of being free in America today. If you don't pay it back, there's a country called "Liberia" over in Africa that was literally "made" for you.
We all know that they can't even account for the billions the U.S. gov't has sent to Ukraine. Does anyone really think they would be able to account for this much given to a bunch of entitled great-great-great-great grandchildren of U.S. slaves?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
downnout 1/28/2023 2:31:58 PM (No. 1389481)
Sorry, folks. I have never owned a slave and since I have been paying all my life to help support people who could work but will not, that makes me their slave. So pay up.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
gop_guys 1/28/2023 2:55:22 PM (No. 1389490)
Buy silver & gold. Imagine the inflationary pressures this would put on fiat. (Dollar)
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/28/2023 4:19:34 PM (No. 1389515)
Show me someone enslaved by a fellow American. They can have reparations from their enslaver. The rest of us had nothing to do with it, and many fought to end and correct it.
So, NO! You don't deserve it.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
learner 1/28/2023 4:28:16 PM (No. 1389516)
First you have to deduct all the welfare payments, the food stamps, medical services, housing assistance over the last 60 years that taxpayers have been subsidizing and see where that leaves us. I imagine they will need to pay us some reparations.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/28/2023 4:39:50 PM (No. 1389520)
why stop there???!!! why not $155 gazillion dollars for every black person in the country whether citizen or not - would that not solve the problem??? Get real!!!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Safari Man 1/28/2023 5:43:10 PM (No. 1389531)
My ancestors were murdered by African slaves. How much do I get for that?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/28/2023 5:55:13 PM (No. 1389541)
I nwould agree, but only if President Lincoln's recolonization plan was followed.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/28/2023 6:08:35 PM (No. 1389548)
Strike Three, Absolutely!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/28/2023 7:04:52 PM (No. 1389585)
Fine. But first blacks need to pay us back the $26 Trillion spent on entitlements over the last 60 years. No checks. Cash only.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/28/2023 7:35:32 PM (No. 1389608)
Do a DNA test and see if these guys were from Africa post 1865 That would make them the Hoi Poloi who sold their Black slaves to the Arabs who sold them to Americans. Ask Black Americans if they are better off in America or in Africa.
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You want reparations, why don't you see the Arabs who were the ones buying what the African Tribesmen were selling to them? This is not on America, this is on them.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Mike22 1/28/2023 7:49:30 PM (No. 1389615)
I need trillions in reparations from the British Imperialists the invaded, conquered and exploited my Ancestral Homeland of Ireland . Also millions from the transcontinental railway companies that exploited their Irish track-layers. And the US Government that used their Irish draftees as cannon fodder for their crazy generals. Where is my money?
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/28/2023 10:08:12 PM (No. 1389682)
I DEMAND REPARATIONS!
All my working career (Late 1970's up to 2013) I had to outperform the beneficiaries of 'Affirmative Action' to keep my job and outperform to earn each promotion. I DEMAND Reparations for the OFFICIAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RACIAL AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION directed against people of MY 'ethnic' and gender classification! Yes, the EEEEVVVVVIIIIILLLLLL 'White Males' that do the bulk of the actual work that keep the wheels of the Nation turning!
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
mifla 1/29/2023 5:37:41 AM (No. 1389798)
And after it is gone, they will be back for more.
Get a job. Obey the law. Stay in school. Support your kids.
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They would be OK spreading out the reparations over 10 years. And then what? We would be Zimbabwe,