How would reparations work?

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This money was given out to them Shortly after the incidents that caused them harm. Imo Trying to account for something that happened 400 years ago would be more difficult.

It's completely doable and it's not impossible though. I see what you're saying but we need to stop the self-defeatism. They are getting money since the end of WW2 to this present day. They are suing anybody and every corporation, government entity involved. Imo- it would take a class action lawsuit to start this off, for AAs.

As comparison - if you look at the framework for it from WW2. Jews officially started receiving reparations in 1952.
-fast forward to 2016, The State Department paid out of $11million dollars from France to Holocaust survivors living in the US, just off the fact that France let the Germans use French trains to transport Jewish prisoners to Nazi death camps.
-Not only did Jews receive payments from Germany, but France is also paying reparations. The Jews not only had state intervention in obtaining reparations on an international scale but they have been using the US legal system to sue for additional payments:
The French government has paid more than $6 billion in Holocaust reparations since 1948,
More than 700 claims have been filed under a 2014 agreement between the United States and France in which the French government pledged a total $60 million for the deportations

U.S. Jewish groups and aging Holocaust survivors have pushed for French reparations since at least 2000, both through class-action lawsuits and state and federal legislation.
-(figures taken from Washington post article).

 

[JQ Legend]

Breh I gotta get cataract surgery soon, fukk is you typing in that light gray ass font for?

And as much as I'd Love 1 million,

That would be 40 trillion, as in $40,000,000,000,000.

I'd say give us guaranteed employment and housing. Along with some stipend for all that are in between jobs. At the very least. Since they say we're a bunch of lazy good for nothing people who don't wanna work anyway, they should have no problem making a law stating any AA is guaranteed employment and housing assistance.

Free college no exceptions, if u get accepted, it's free

Some sort of big money to create businesses to provide some of those aforementioned jobs

That wouldn't come close to making up for it but would be a decent start while being somewhat realistic

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

If we started by suing those companies and industries, for example- the cotton and textile industry: Great Britain, Mississippi, New York historically. The cotton trade in the South is estimated at 200 billion. That's what we're entitled to.

in 1860, the value of the slaves was “roughly three times greater than the total amount invested in banks,” and it was “equal to about seven times the total value of all currency in circulation in the country, three times the value of the entire livestock population, twelve times the value of the entire U.S. cotton crop and forty-eight times the total expenditure of the federal government that year.”

Now, the value of cotton: Slave-produced cotton “brought commercial ascendancy to New York City, was the driving force for territorial expansion in the Old Southwest and fostered trade between Europe and the United States,” according to Gene Dattel. In fact, cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very long time: “Cotton was the leading American export from 1803 to 1937.”

By 1860, New York had become the capital of the South because of its dominant role in the cotton trade. New York rose to its preeminent position as the commercial and financial center of America because of cotton. It has been estimated that New York received forty percent of all cotton revenues since the city supplied insurance, shipping, and financing services and New York merchants sold goods to Southern planters.

Cotton in a Global Economy: Mississippi (1800-1860) | Mississippi History Now
The Role Cotton Played in the 1800s Economy | African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

 

[Nintendough]

They not even trying to cough up any of that

You already know that. If we got at least two of them things its a start. Its not the end at all, but its a start.

 

[unit321]

They put Native Americans on their own land for reparations. Living on the reservation now has a bit of a negative sting.
That worked out as much as building mega-apartment projects for low-income people. At the time, "project" had a positive meaning. "We have a project! It will help low-income families by providing affordable housing". Later, it got a negative meaning, a place of high-crime, poverty, danger, no hope, death, fear, etc.

Whatever reparations plan they come up with, if they do it, it's going to backfire in some way or form.

 

[Rawtid]

They put Native Americans on their own land for reparations. Living on the reservation now has a bit of a negative sting.
That worked out as much as building mega-apartment projects for low-income people. At the time, "project" had a positive meaning. "We have a project! It will help low-income families by providing affordable housing". Later, it got a negative meaning, a place of high-crime, poverty, danger, no hope, death, fear, etc.

Whatever reparations plan they come up with, if they do it, it's going to backfire in some way or form.

Exactly. White people have no idea what the people they've oppressed need.

 

[Asicz]

Pay up, America! New calculation puts slavery reparations at $14 trillion - theGrio

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

land allocations would cause a sea of problems

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

Too often I think people make the mistake of saying "We built this country"-- Nah... If you ask me, what we built was this country's ability to participate in the global economy. Cotton alone was the leading export for more than half of American history.

The question is, what could be provided that would ensure that we have our OWN stake in the global economy? I honestly don't know, but that's the kinda reparations I'd be interested in.

 

[FromStLouis]

14 trillion ~ $350k per person for a rough assumption of 40M AADOS.

stretch it out over 20 years

17,500 a year.

reparations plus it serves as a UBI trial run

that's always been my back of the napkin plan

all tax free of course

 

[The M.I.C.]

Pay up, America! New calculation puts slavery reparations at $14 trillion - theGrio

Would be about 318k per person if we're going off a population of 44 million.

 

[unit321]

Would be about 318k per person if we're going off a population of 44 million.

Minus reparation taxes to go towards paying for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, maybe $1,000 a person.

 

[dj-method-x]

14 trillion ~ $350k per person for a rough assumption of 40M AADOS.

stretch it out over 20 years

17,500 a year.

reparations plus it serves as a UBI trial run

that's always been my back of the napkin plan

all tax free of course

The number to reduce the wealth gap is a tad higher though. Read the article I posted on the front page of this thread for an in depth analysis.

Edit: nah you’re numbers are actually more generous. Nvm

 

[606onit]

the only reparations we are going to get are the ones we TAKE.

 

[ThatTruth777]

its not about handing out a check, its about building our institutions tantamount to building a nation.