Zone1 REPARATION NOW! The US Owes $350,000 To Every Black American

[Freedomisneverfree]

To get into the middle class one needs more IQ power than most Negroes have.

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[Lisa558]

If the Founding Fathers had had any sense they would have freed the Negroes and forced them to move to Africa. Then they would have passed laws preventing free Negroes to move here.

Lincoln wanted to send the freed slaves back to some African country - Libya I think. Not sure about the educated blacks in the Northeast.

 

[fncceo]

Germany paid reparations

To Black Americans?

That was nice of them.

 

[IM2]

Farmers. Fishermen. People who’ve lost bank accounts or pensions. People who’ve had a bad reaction to a COVID vaccine. People who’ve had a reaction to any other vaccine. Indigenous people. Veterans. Descendants of veterans. People who get hurt on the job. People who built nuclear bombs. People exposed to pesticides. Coal miners who get black lung disease. People who lose paychecks or homes from floods, droughts, or other natural disasters. People who are impacted by trade agreements.

That’s a long list. But it's still a fraction of the many people and groups who receive compensation either from or through the government for the harms they have suffered. Every day, someone somewhere in America is being compensated under the concept of what is known as restorative justice, a type of justice that instead of meting out punishment to a wrongdoer, seeks to make the victims or their families whole—or at least repair them as much as possible. Restorative justice is also known as reparative justice, or, in the context of the experience of Black Americans from the first slave ships in the 1600s through to today, simply reparations.

But unlike those other, everyday reparations, Black reparations are seen by many as a highly charged political third rail, so last year Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes launched a research project to see if they could change the conversation. What they found is a situation that is, to put it mildly, perverse. Cataloging the harms suffered by Black Americans through the centuries from slavery itself through segregation, disenfranchisement, economic and educational discrimination, wealth inequality, and more, they found that no group was perhaps more deserving of being made whole. They also studied and cataloged a huge system of American restorative compensation that works every day to make people whole for harms they have suffered. What they didn’t find, however, was a connection between the two.

The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America

Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore the issue of restorative justice for the multifaceted, intergenerational harms Black Americans have suffered.

www.hks.harvard.edu

 

[IM2]

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes​

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes

In her new book, tax law professor Dorothy Brown argues that the U.S. systems for generating wealth inherently favor white Americans while also penalizing Black Americans.

www.wbur.org

 

[IM2]

Americans are increasingly aware of the racial wealth gap and the state and federal policies that not only created this inequality, but also deepened it over many generations. Yet conversations about the racial wealth gap have not given segregation, aside from the subject of residential segregation, the attention it deserves. To be sure, residential segregation is part of a broader program of segregation in the United States, a program that made the activities undertaken by African Americans—from renting property to gaining an education—more expensive, while also excluding Black people from opportunities to make economic advances.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has described segregation as “plunder”—as the redistribution of African-American wealth to white people and the institutions that operated to benefit white people. Coates’s understanding of Jim Crow—along with slavery and an unjust incarceration system—as systems of plunder is an important part of his argument in favor of reparations. While many scholars have been aware of segregation as a system with economic consequences for quite some time, they tend to marginalize this aspect, focusing more on its political and psychological effects. Yet Jim Crow was fundamentally an economic system, influencing what work people did, how well they were compensated for their labor, and what standard of living they were able to afford. The impacts of this racialized economic system last to this day.

When Will There Be an Accounting for Segregation? - The Economic Historian

Jim Crow was fundamentally an economic system that influenced what type of jobs were available, wages, and living standards available.

economic-historian.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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Farmers. Fishermen. People who’ve lost bank accounts or pensions. People who’ve had a bad reaction to a COVID vaccine. People who’ve had a reaction to any other vaccine. Indigenous people. Veterans. Descendants of veterans. People who get hurt on the job. People who built nuclear bombs. People exposed to pesticides. Coal miners who get black lung disease. People who lose paychecks or homes from floods, droughts, or other natural disasters. People who are impacted by trade agreements.

That’s a long list. But it's still a fraction of the many people and groups who receive compensation either from or through the government for the harms they have suffered. Every day, someone somewhere in America is being compensated under the concept of what is known as restorative justice, a type of justice that instead of meting out punishment to a wrongdoer, seeks to make the victims or their families whole—or at least repair them as much as possible. Restorative justice is also known as reparative justice, or, in the context of the experience of Black Americans from the first slave ships in the 1600s through to today, simply reparations.

But unlike those other, everyday reparations, Black reparations are seen by many as a highly charged political third rail, so last year Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes launched a research project to see if they could change the conversation. What they found is a situation that is, to put it mildly, perverse. Cataloging the harms suffered by Black Americans through the centuries from slavery itself through segregation, disenfranchisement, economic and educational discrimination, wealth inequality, and more, they found that no group was perhaps more deserving of being made whole. They also studied and cataloged a huge system of American restorative compensation that works every day to make people whole for harms they have suffered. What they didn’t find, however, was a connection between the two.

The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America

Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore the issue of restorative justice for the multifaceted, intergenerational harms Black Americans have suffered.

www.hks.harvard.edu

The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America​

Not to 40 million people. Not trillions of dollars.

 

[IM2]

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation​

Only a few days after Tax Day, many Americans still have Uncle Sam on their minds. Though the vast majority of citizens and non-citizens pay some form of federal taxes—Income, Social Security, Medicare tax, or otherwise— few seem aware that the origins of the federal tax system reflect the labyrinthine relationship among race, wealth, and slavery during the Revolutionary War era.

Whereas many are likely familiar with the U.S. Constitution’s 3/5th clause that apportioned “representatives and direct Taxes” among the states according to “the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years…[and] three fifths of all other Persons,” few are aware of efforts undertaken a decade prior–at the outset of the Second Continental Congress–to launch a colorblind yet pro-slavery federal tax proposal. Such a narrative should compel us to ask questions about the racialized nature of entrenched intergenerational wealth today and our current tax system’s role in perpetuating such problematic realities.

By attempting to adopt a colorblind yet pro-slavery federal tax policy as the first federal tax program, those who were present at the Second Continental Congress sought to sidestep the apparent contradiction between the reality of Black enslavement and the lofty ideals of universal freedom enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. The 56 white male delegates attending the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the spring of 1775—at least a third of whom enslaved African children, women, and men— understood that conversations about federal tax policies were really debates about the sectional geopolitics of U.S. slavery. And in fact, these early deliberations demonstrate that colorblind white supremacy should not be periodized exclusively as a distinctly modern technology of the U.S. racial state following de jure Black enslavement and Jim Crow segregation but rather constitutive of the types of politics that birthed the nation itself.

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation - AAIHS

Only a few days after Tax Day, many Americans still have Uncle Sam on their minds. Though the vast majority of citizens and non-citizens pay some form of federal taxes—Income, Social Security, Medicare tax, or otherwise— few seem aware that the origins of the federal tax system reflect the...

www.aaihs.org

 

[IM2]

The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America​

Not to 40 million people. Not trillions of dollars.

I don't think you know that.
But;
The U.S. owes 40 million people trillions of dollars.

 

[IM2]

Can't face the truth todd?

 

[IM2]

Why we need reparations for Black Americans | Brookings

Rashawn Ray and Andre Perry outline the history of reparations in the United States, missed opportunities to redress the racial wealth gap, and specific details for a viable reparations package for Black Americans.

www.brookings.edu

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I don't think you know that.
But;
The U.S. owes 40 million people trillions of dollars.

You'll get nothing.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Can't face the truth todd?

That you're a whiney bitch?
How can I avoid that truth?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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Why we need reparations for Black Americans | Brookings

Rashawn Ray and Andre Perry outline the history of reparations in the United States, missed opportunities to redress the racial wealth gap, and specific details for a viable reparations package for Black Americans.

www.brookings.edu

You have to ask what the average white family did that the average black family didn't do, in order to get that wealth. You have to look at the age of those average families as well.
Older workers will tend to make more and have more than younger workers.
Family size is also an issue. A married white couple is going to be better off than a black single mother.

As far as college graduates, what's the degree they earned?
A worker with a finance or STEM degree is going to make more
than a worker with a degree in social work or community organization, regardless of race.

 

[MizMolly]

Where is the money coming from?

Blacks are 13 percent of the population, so provide 13 percent of the annual income tax revenue to organizations/ programs in the black community until the 15 trillion is paid. Thats approximately 200 billion annually for 35 years with a 1 time payment of 300,000 for every black citizens who earns less than 400,000 per year. That would be around 9 trillion for programs and around 6 for individual payments. This money would recycle throughout the whole economy, whites will lose nothing.

Blacks have paid for white progress so I'm not going to hear the whining.

After 35 years, you will see a drastic change and the overall American economy will benefit.

What blacks today pay for white progress? Why should anyone alive today who was not born or directly affected by Jim Crow or slavery get reparations?

 

[MizMolly]

Whites have got their 6 trillion and then some. And we piad for part of it.

You didn’t pay for ANY of it.

 

[MizMolly]

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes​

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes

In her new book, tax law professor Dorothy Brown argues that the U.S. systems for generating wealth inherently favor white Americans while also penalizing Black Americans.

www.wbur.org

Bullshit

 

[MizMolly]

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes​

'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes

In her new book, tax law professor Dorothy Brown argues that the U.S. systems for generating wealth inherently favor white Americans while also penalizing Black Americans.

www.wbur.org

Did you not comprehend this? Making this issue about race is bullshit. It has to do with how many in the marriage are working.

How is race involved? Census bureau data show that White, married couples are more likely to have a stay-at-home spouse and get a tax cut, whereas in Black married couples, both partners are more likely to be wage earners, and therefore pay higher taxes.

 

[JoeB131]

Where is the money coming from?

Blacks are 13 percent of the population, so provide 13 percent of the annual income tax revenue to organizations/ programs in the black community until the 15 trillion is paid. Thats approximately 200 billion annually for 35 years with a 1 time payment of 300,000 for every black citizens who earns less than 400,000 per year. That would be around 9 trillion for programs and around 6 for individual payments. This money would recycle throughout the whole economy, whites will lose nothing.

Blacks have paid for white progress so I'm not going to hear the whining.

After 35 years, you will see a drastic change and the overall American economy will benefit.

First, why stop with blacks? I want reparations for all the anti-German discrimination that my father and grandfather experienced when they came here.

You suffer from what Heinlein called "The Socialist Disease in its worst form- the belief that the world owes you a living."

Nobody owes you anything. You have the opportunity to make of yourself what you can. If you failed to do so, that's on you.

 

[JoeB131]

Lincoln wanted to send the freed slaves back to some African country - Libya I think. Not sure about the educated blacks in the Northeast.

Libya?

You might be thinking of Liberia, specifically created as a refuge for freed slaves, so the other slaves didn't get any idea. That turned out to be a disaster in its own right as the freed slaves, much like abused children who've gotten big enough to beat up someone else, proceeded to abuse the natives of the country. (Kind of like how the Zionists learned all the wrong lessons from the Nazis). But that bit of stupidity was rejected by the time of the Civil War.