Reparations Wrong!

The fact that any group of people could come up with this proposal is evidence of how messed up we are becoming.

San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee recommendations(1):

Pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece

$97,000 annual income for low-income blacks for the next 250 years

Comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans

From some perspectives there have been a form of reparations for almost 60 years with affirmative action - where all things being equal blacks were given advantage over whites. It is estimated that affirmative action has cost the US over 12 trillion (2)  dollars over this time. While how much of that was gained by whom is ambiguous, what is clear is that most Americans are not descendants of slaveholders nor did they gain an advantage from slaves and it is impossible to blame the disparities between blacks and whites today on slavery more than 100 years ago and systemic racism today. 

(1) https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations%202022%20Report%20Final_0.pdf

(2) https://vdare.com/articles/when-quotas-replace-merit-everybody-suffers