Financial Reparations - Mathematics, Logistics & Common Sense

[King Jae]

here's something I've been thinking about but I've never told it to anybody because it could just be some bullshyt, what if ADOS got like 2x-weighted votes in elections. local, state, and federal...in addition to "traditional" reparations.


feel free to chop this down.

That's cool but...if u make political donations why would u need a double voteu would still have to live in the country...the voter base hasn't changed...u just got extra money...just pay lobbyists for our political interests and have them get in the ear of the rep or senator...have them introduce bills...same process would work on a local govt level...whatever we do it shouldn't be centralized to any particular part of the country...so they can't black wall street it...means they would have to bomb their Jamba juices and dog parks to take us out...

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

330 million
%13 Black
Let's assume 50% of that is ADOS.
That's 21,450,000 people
Times $60k each
Equals $1.287 Trillion
equals LOL NOT EVER GONNA fukkING HAPPEN

Some of these dudes delusional, they won't listen Of all threads(about 50 by now) I probably had 2 posters suggest good alternatives.

I think free college is a start. We should also get some type of discount on houses, I'm thinking 1% down payment and the government covers the other 24%. Considering most blacks are lower class, No federal tax ain't gone really affect us in a good way.

And $60,000 ain't shyt. That's barely a down payment on a house

 

[sportscribe]

It's hard to quantify financially what would would be adequate for reparations. What Marianne Williamson was proposing ($100bn) is paltry. That would work out to ~$2,500 per individual. That's why I was surprised to see people really pushing her agenda here. The herd mentality without actually regarding the facts is astounding

Imo, you'd have to consider time when factoring in reparations. I like the idea of free college education and possibly healthcare. Funny enough, that's what Bernie is proposing, except for all citizens. I've said it already that a lot of these candidates are throwing the word "reparations" around and using it as a buzzword without putting real plans on the table. Democrats as usual feel black people are a group that needs to be handled with kids gloves.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It's hard to quantify financially what would would be adequate for reparations. What Marianne Williamson was proposing ($100bn) is paltry. That would work out to ~$2,500 per individual. That's why I was surprised to see people really pushing her agenda here. The herd mentality without actually regarding the facts is astounding

Imo, you'd have to consider time when factoring in reparations. I like the idea of free college education and possibly healthcare. Funny enough, that's what Bernie is proposing, except for all citizens. I've said it already that a lot of these candidates are throwing the word "reparations" around and using it as a buzzword without putting real plans on the table. Democrats as usual feel black people are a group that needs to be handled with kids gloves.

And dumb nikkas fall for this shyt too. Kamala was talking about reparations but took her word back. We have the right mindset, but we fallin for the BS. Politicians will say anything to get votes, we have to keep this in mind with whatever you say.

And you right, I ain't seen no type of plans from them on how reparations would work.

 

[DPresidential]

I cannot say how happy I am that the discussion happening here has not devolved into something where brehs are declaring the other brehs who disagree with them as hostile and turning it into a troll match.

I have been busy all day but I will definitely be back to rep y'all brehs and respond to the comments here.

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I'll say this, clearly, I don't think 60k is enough either. My underlying point is that the numbers literally make the talk of financial reparations in the architecture of "land" or "money" received by other groups who have been subject to multi-generational altering institutional oppression is nothing short of ludicrous unless the more sensible option of reparations going to those who are no more than 2 generations removed from former slaves.(A group who is obviously declining at a significant rate.

I am also going to give my thoughts on why the manpower, voting, and political presence needed to SERIOUSLY sway the Country towards reparations OF ANY KIND, will not be there if those who are the architects & intellectual leaders of this stance are not only fighting a battle to get reparations but also fighting tooth and nail to convince native black Americans w/ american slavery ancestry that they need to beware & suspicious of Caribbean & Saharan African black people among them.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT - An Analogous Story of Why Unity is Important -

Look at this excerpt:

Set against this unprecedented juggernaut, the Greeks had appeared few in numbers and hopelessly divided. Greece itself was little more than a geographical expression: not a country but a patchwork of quarrelsome and often violently chauvinistic city-states. True, the Greeks regarded themselves as a single people, united by language, religion and custom; but what the various cities often seemed to have most in common was an addiction to fighting one another.

- Persian Fire, Tom Holland

I bring this quote up to have brehs really think about the importance of unity. This excerpt refers to the Battle of Thermopylae, which was captured - loosely - in the popular movie 300. The idea that pushing for reparations going hand in hand w/ the hostile rhetoric of suspicion of non-AADOS blacks, at the cost of further splintering the nexus between black Americans, Caribbean blacks & Saharan African blacks, is nothing short of tragic.

Now, look at this next except:

It did not seem beyond the bounds of possibility, during that bleak and dread-shadowed autumn, that the whole of Greece might simply drop like overripe fruit into Xerxes' lap.

Which was, of course, for the Spartans and the Athenians, who had no choice but to fight, the ultimate nightmare....they too hurriedly sent out ambassadors, calling their fellow Greeks to arms...Many of the cities who had chosen to send delegates to Sparta were still at war with one another; yet, startlingly, when it was proposed that all such feuding should be resolved, everyone agreed then and there. Aegina, for instance, having decided this time round to throw in her lot against the invaders from the very start, found herself burying the hatchet with Athens; and with the very real prospect, furthermore, of her ships being combined in a single fleet with those of her erstwhile bitter foe.

...that the Greeks had only one hope of survival: "to put an end to their feuding, to reconcile the various cities with one another, and to persuade them to join together in the cause of defeating Persia."

- Persian Fire, Tom Holland pg. 225-226


I mean... that really bring it home. Imagine you replaced the greek city states with various groups of black people in the U.S? Imagine, instead of going up against a juggernaut with the advantage of putting aside quarrels & hostilities, the Greeks still decided to let pride & entitlement captain the political ship and remained splintered?

The Persian War would not have ended with a decisive unified victory over Persia in the Battle of Plataea. All of Greece would have been conquered in that war & we wouldn't have had such a good movie.(Jokes)

shyt...I said I was busy but I had to get this out.

Nothing wrong with feeling proud of what unique cultural differences you or I might have with other cultures of the African Diaspora...but an entitlement & a hostile/suspicious perspective on what makes us beautifully different?

That ain't it, chief.