Don't agree on 40 acres and a mule. Do you know what 40 acres is worth in the South -- and the millions made off of those acres yearly.
My paternal Grannie had 2 acres and she died with none. Imagine if she had 40. This is in a small town in Alabama. I did a search on what it's worth now:
Land Value - $13,620 // Imp Value // - $191,150 // Total Marketable Value - $204,770
This one just one of numerous family members who died who had ownership. They can use if for Timber selling, real estate development, farming etc.
Yeah but see that involves labor, labor has a cost.
I see slavery like this:
Slaves had skills, they were shipbuilders, ranchers, farmers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, preachers, nannies, entertainers and etc. Slaves were even loaned out to other people.
They weren't allowed to use any of these skills for their own financial gain. Also, many slaves died while working. Under a proper market-based wage system, every hour of your day money forgone. So if a master killed a slave or maimed a slave, that's money forgone.
I don't need money just for the products of their labor, I need money for their skills and missed opportunities and the abuses they suffered. Let's not forget the savings they provided via free labor - I need money for that too. They weren't just laborers, they were vehicles of wealth. They were like purchasing a robot today to do something, on top of being like a stock. So they missed out on their own price for their life. The slaves built Wall-Street, it was a slave market before it was a place for stocks and bonds.
Somebody needs to go calculate that and the amount of GDP that they contributed to the USA economy and how much a slave was worth depending on their skills, also what they were traded for on the open market as a financial instrument and come back with a number. Then with that number we add in pain and suffering because trauma fukks with your genetics and we inherited some bad shyt because of what those crackers did.
(We ain't even talking about 200 years of Jim Crow, that's money too.)
All I am saying is, don't let these White folk promoting and championing reparations, trick ADOS people into thinking that they just need get a lump sum of money and some programs based off of like the average price of a slave or whatever. That was basically what 40 arcs and mule was plus the freedman bureau was and that wasn't enough.
Giving a slave that worked all of his or her life for White folk, some land and tell them go work on it as reparations, some cruel shyt in my opinion. What should've happened was, slaves get their masters shyt and masters are forced off their land and have their wealth taken and they start over. That would be proper compensation.
Just like giving ADOS some settlement money that ain't even enough individually to pay off our debt that we incurred because we inherited nothing and telling us to go use some of these programs to start a business is some cruel shyt.
ADOS people, if reparations are done properly, shouldn't have to do anything if you don't want to. Like, we, individually, should be set for life. While everybody else gotta go to work and scrape and crawl in this world, we should be chilling. Because slaves had skills and opportunities that were used to enrich the country and slave owners. Theoretically, there is no settlement or program can make up for that now. In practically, only thing that can make up for that, is that we, as their descendants, inherit all of their loss opportunities and we are free to do what we want because we are set for life.
All this shyt everybody got is ours. Non-ADOS people just don't know it yet. But it is ours.
ADOS gang
fukking pisses me off...
