Posted on 06/03/2020 9:16:31 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The hypocrisy of mega-rich celebrities calling for reparations for slavery is astonishing. Black Entertainment Television Founder Robert Johnson, as summarized by CNBC, said that the “U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality.” He’s currently worth an estimated $550 million.
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Make it an even zillion.
I think they have already gotten their 14 trillion over the course of the past 50 years..
One of the main reasons to keep the borders open, coupled with taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, is just to remove people who have made it clear they will never assimilate. All groups are represented, but some much more than others.
Perpetual panhandling won’t work, and their quarry is escaping - through negative birthrates and/or getting the same freebies, the white taxpayers will never pay this danegeld. They’ve paid enough for half a century.
We are not in arrears to former slaves. Any possible claims former slaves may had died with them when they had not tried to bring suit while still alive.
Being affected is not being afflicted.
We owe nothing to blacks people on account of slavery. Not one cent.
I want reparations for the government treatment of my Scottish ancestor who was fraudulently brought to America as an indentured servant and whose community of Gaelic speakers from Skye was reduced by half due to starvation and scarlet fever deaths of men, women and children that first winter by their Land company, that lured them with false promises and fraud.It was genocide.
I am getting in line for this historic justice cash cow.
Shove it, you know what hole.
Try it and you’ll see some real civil insurrection, dork.
Yeah, OK, Bob. Just sit quietly in your plush office and wait for me to go get my checkbook ... you fool!
BET is a racist organization.
People like this need to be immediately called out and moved out.
Oh wait...
I always thought he was a billionaire, not that it matters much.
Right after you fill my bank account with reparations for 400 years of slavery in Egypt, you ignorant racist toad.
“Robert Johnson, as summarized by CNBC, said that the “U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality.”
In the words of Judge Smails of Caddyshack fame, you’ll get nothing and like it!
They’re picking their stuff as we speak.
How bout he starts off and contributes, say, 1/2 trillion on his own?
He still has $50 million to “live’ on
Scholarships, tutors, bona fide “teachers”
Bring an essential factory from Communist China, stick it in a depressed area and put people to work.
Actions speak louder than words. Put your $$$ where your mouth is. You are the one advocating, not me. Leave me alone, I’m not interested. You are (supposedly) so set an example. Be a hero, show the way.
I dare you
While he’s at it, how about some for my Irish wife, whose forbears were not allowed into many jobs and for me, since my Russian Jewish ancestors were serfs in Russia and barred from many colleges, jobs and living in certain areas by restrictive covenants when they came here and well into the ‘60s.
Neither of our families were here when there was slavery.
That’s about $120k to each Black person in the USA. If they actually did this, there would be little trace of the money within the “community” within three years.
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