If you gave every black person in this country $10,000, none of them would have anything to show for it in a year. (Let’s be real: a lot of black men would have their reparations checks immediately garnished for child support.)
If you gave every black person in this country $100,000, most of them would have nothing to show for it in five years.
If you gave every black person in this country $500,000, a lot of them would have nothing to show for it in ten years, and those who bought real estate would screw up the markets in a lot of areas.
This isn’t even unique to black people. You look at lottery winners and most of them go flat broke very quickly.
Reparations would do nothing to solve the problems in the black community, and would enrage almost every single white person. This is a non-starter.
“If you gave every black person in this country $100,000, most of them would have nothing to show for it in five years.”
Less than 6 months. I’ve watched people of all colors go through that type of cash very quickly.