Hot take: I don't mind reparations but I just don't see how it can logically be implemented.
1. Are there good records of who has slave ancestry and who doesn't?
2. What about other races who were slaves? Do they get a check too or is it blacks only?
3. For blacks that descend from free men/slave owners, should they now pay into the reparations pool of $ to be redistributed?
4. How much $ do they get?
IMO the best time for reparations was right after the civil war, Now it's too complex
If Bishop Bagel was going in charge of the US reparations department I wouldn't give cash.
I would give them some time of tuition voucher they can use to learn a skill or a trade.
That would be the best way IMO because most people aren't good with managing lumpsums of 💰
The tuition reparations for black people are already happening and they are not working because they prefer fields that do not use math and do not involve hands on labor
Black people are given preference in Universities and the government gives out free grants to attend colleges
Giving black people tuition while allowing them to pass high school without being required to multiply single digit numbers in their head without a calculator has only made them more poor
You're conflating benefits given to the poor with benefits for blacks.
Grants and UNI preferences are available for most minority groups but they did a study and found white women benefitted from it the most and asian men were hurt the most.
What I propose is a tuition credit for EVERY descendant of a slave regardless of skin color.
Also you can thank no child left behind under bush for letting kids pass high school while being unable to read.
1 Only descendants of slave masters should pay reparations
2 There is a problem that slave masters had biological children with their slaves in that someone should get reparations from their slave master ancestors but are entitled to reparations because of their slave ancestors
3 Descendants of union people whose ancestors fought to oppose slavery in the civil war war would not owe reparations to slaves but would owe it to the south for Sherman's total war
All good points.
This is why I said the civil war was the PERFECT time to de reparations.
You could have just added it onto the south's war debt or redistributed slave owner's land if you like.
Now we have issues like #2 that I'm not entirely sure how to solve
But IMO wtth #2 you should be judged by your father's side as from what I've read female slaves didn't do much and had it pretty easy since they were expensive.
