https://thepostmillennial.com/squad-member-jamaal-bowman-demands…
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) wants the federal government to approve a $14 trillion reparations measure.
Bowman is one of nine sponsors of HR 414, which aims to hold the US government accountable for slavery and the aftermath that followed.
Despite its hefty price tag, Rep. Bowman insists that it's a fair and feasible amount, citing how the US government monetarily supported Americans during the COVID pandemic."When COVID was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept the economy afloat," said Bowman, according to Fox News. "The government can invest the same way in reparations without raising taxes on anyone.""Where did the money come from?" asked Bowman. "We spent it into existence."
The proposed legislation would require the allocation of $14 trillion by the federal government towards a reparations program intended to assist former enslaved African Americans and individuals of African descent.According to census data, 12 percent of the US population is black.
Call me a cynic but somehow I feel that even if you gave $100 trillion, *nothing* would change.
Not the grievance culture, not the demands, not even the standards of living. By the end of the decade, everything would circle back to step 1 and the song and dance would begin again.
Passenger boat rides heading east across the Atlantic are far cheaper.
Adjusted for inflation, we have already given them at least than much. And where has it gone? To the shareholders of Nike and Hennessy.
@JoyfulGrizzlyLibertarian4mos4MO
The truth of the matter is it would be a wealth transfer that would end up as rims, gold chains, and other ridiculous garbage and they would be no better off. No purchase of land, or investment. Just “Chapelle Show” level antics
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
These people can just go back to Africa if America is so terrible. But there are plenty of decent black people who love this country and work hard for it, like Booker T. Washington and S.B. Fuller, who scolded their fellow black men for whining about racism instead of becoming self-sufficient entrepreneurs and hard workers. Get some of that spirit and the problem is solved. But if you aren't willing to take some initiative, get out of my country. I don't want to pay to support you.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Yeah, honestly the “reparations” should be fixing systemic racism, not just a random pay out that fixes nothing, though I doubt that most of it would be misused, it just wouldn’t have much effect.
@9J8H9BJWomen’s Equality4mos4MO
I'm in favor of reparations for African American people.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Yeah just not like… extreme amounts of funds. I’m thinking ACTUALLY FIXING RACISM instead. The reparations are destroying racial bias in our institutions and using things like CRT as a partial basis. (CRT is wrong about race being entirely social).
@9J84PW4Constitution4mos4MO
Destructive to the very fabric of out nation
@9J8548D4mos4MO
Forcing massive groups of individuals to work for free, for centuries could make any nation great. It just so happen, in this reality, on Earth, Africans were chosen to do the hard work that started the US economy. Fast forward, African Americans still do not share a percentage to the wealth they help create. The United States cannot get out of $30 trillion debt until what is owed from the past is paid for.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
It's stupid to pay people for wrongs they never experienced. It wasn't the modern blacks who were slaves, but blacks generations ago. No one owes anyone anything anytime, period.
@mikaylaxca 4mos4MO
This is a waste of money, and white people should have no responsibility for "making up" for mistakes of their ancestors.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
And it wasn't a mistake in many cases, the whites inherited slaves from the forefathers and because they were in debt, were not legally allowed to free their slaves...
@9J8FWP24mos4MO
While I agree what happened to the Africans brought to American in slavery was horrible I don’t think it’s right to demand payment from white people now solely based on them being white. Every country in the world had owned slaves at some point, every country has at one point treated another group of people horribly, it’s sadly not rare in human history. It’s important to learn about the past so we don’t make the same horrible choices going forward
@EnderKilgannon 4mos4MO
It's well deserved, we should pay reparations, we used them to gain our standing now, we held back their ability to prosper, they deserve to come up, if my taxes go up because of it, I will gladly pay.
@9J8BTFF4mos4MO
I feel African Americn should recive some sort of reparations due to the lifelong set back they have dealt with for many decades holding back geberatons from excelling and generaltional wealth.
@9J88MG64mos4MO
We have more pressing issues to deal with on the home front.
@9J887DY4mos4MO
It's dumb and makes no sense to introduce.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
What a moron. He conveniently forgets that a lot of blacks have some white DNA in their blood – that came in many cases from white slaveowners. He forgets that Muslims raided Europe for hundreds of years to enslave whites, that Africans enslaved whites, that Indians enslaved members of different tribes, AND that there were many BLACK slaveowners with BLACK slaves in the South, not to mention the whites who were also enslaved in America. If you're going to pay one group you've got to pay them all buddy...
@9J87ND24mos4MO
It is horrendous, who determins whether you're black enough to recieve reparations, not all blacks had slave ancestors, only a majority- not all- slaves were black. It's hard to tell who benefitted from slavery and who would be worse off. Even if we did give reparations it would be unfair to take it out of tax payers money, and it would be a bad solution to the problem of poverty and crime among blacks. A better solution would be more police in black neighbourhoods, better funding for schools in those areas. You could also give families more opportunities to move away from these areas.
@9J86TLX 4mos4MO
I do think if reparations were paid it would start the healing process for many black Americans and the atrocities they faced throughout our country's history.
@9J86F9Y4mos4MO
I was not alive to own a slave or know anyone that does so why should I have to pay black Americans for something I didn’t do.
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