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The issue of reparations for descendants of slaves is indeed a complex and contentious topic. Let's break down some key points:
The Proposed Amount: The proposed $14 trillion for reparations is a significant sum, representing about a third of the estimated total money in the world ($37-trillion).
National Debt Comparison: Interestingly, the current U.S. national debt stands at approximately $34 trillion, nearly as much as the total money in the world. This raises concerns about the financial feasibility of such a large payout.
Ancestral Complexity: The challenge arises when determining who qualifies for reparations. Ancestry is often mixed, and the plan to distribute $333,000 per descendant raises questions about how this would be calculated for individuals with varying degrees of African heritage.
Generational Considerations: The question of whether reparations would apply to individuals born in the future or only to those with ancestors dating back to 1619 adds another layer of complexity.
Satisfaction and Equity: One of the major concerns is whether even such a substantial payout would truly satisfy the intended recipients. The argument is that historical injustices cannot be adequately compensated with a monetary figure and that it might not lead to the envisioned justice and equity.
Current Living Conditions: The counterargument suggests that the privilege of living in the United States already serves as a form of reparations, enhancing the lives of all residents, including those with African ancestry.
In essence, the debate on reparations involves intricate considerations of financial feasibility, ancestral complexity, and the broader question of whether a monetary compensation can genuinely address historical injustices. It remains a topic with no easy answers and diverse perspectives.
For more details and perspectives, you can explore various opinions and analyses on this complex issue.
Transcript:
First let's put this in perspective. 14 trillion dollars. How much is that? That's the amount of money that Cori Bush and other woke congresspersons are wanting for reparations for black people, blackish people in America, whose descendants were slaves.
Now, let's put that in perspective. You ready? There are 37, almost 37 and a half trillion dollars in the world. I mean if you were to take all the money on the planet, put it in one bank account, all the different currencies, it would be the equivalent of 37.474 trillion dollars by most estimates.
There are different estimates, but that's the most commonly heard. All right, so 14 trillion, that's about a third of all the money on the planet. They want that to go to 42 42 million black Americans, blackish Americans.
Let's try another thing. How much how much is the national debt? Where does the American, the USA national debt stand? Well, interestingly enough, it is 34 trillion, almost as much as all the money on the planet. So again, they want almost a third of all the money, or the equivalent of the national debt.
That's a lot of money, but that's that's only the beginning of the issue that we're facing here. So they want 14 trillion dollars for every descendant of African slaves in the United States. Now it turns out, according to 23andMe, they tell you you're a racial identity.
They don't call it racial, but it's racial identity. And lo and behold, I discovered that I am 0.5% Nigerian. Where did that come from? Well, apparently somewhere back in my ancestry, somebody had relations with an African, probably a slave.
So how much of that 14 trillion dollars do I get? Well, their plan is to break it down to $33,000 per descendant. So do I get like 0.5% of $333,000? How's that going to work? Virtually every black American is not totally black. They also have white ancestors.
So let's say for simplicity's sake, there was a person, and there's a black person, and he wants to qualify, she wants to qualify for reparations, and they want to know how much of this $333,000 per person are you going to get? Well, if you're only half black, you only get half of it, right? What if you're quarter black? Get a quarter of it. What if you're 0.5%? Well, then you get 0.5%. How does that work? Well, the answer is it doesn't work. Okay, we got another problem with this.
So you're gonna pay every person, every black person, $333,000. But what about the black people who are born tomorrow? There will be black babies born tomorrow. Are they gonna be cut out of this? They're not gonna get anything, or does every black person from here and forever get paid reparations for pain and suffering or whatever? How is that gonna work? No, wait a minute.
What about all the black people who have lived and died since 1619? Do they not get reparations? I mean the fact that they're dead, does that get them out, or do their descendants get their cut? So let's say that you're a black person living in America, and you can trace your ancestry back 200 years. I don't know. What would that be? Let's say six generations.
So each generation, each person of each generation, gets $33,000. And you and your kinfolk are going to split that up somehow, some way. I guess you're gonna have to use CHAT GP, whatever it is, to figure this out.
How is that gonna work? But that's not the big problem. Here is the single biggest problem that this reparations measure presents. Is it really going to satisfy anybody? Let's say that we passed reparations, we added 50% to the national debt in so doing, or nearly so, $14 trillion, $333,000 for every person who can prove ancestry, their ancestry were slaves in America, African slaves in America.
Will they be satisfied? Are they gonna say, yeah, okay, now we're satisfied. Now justice has been served. Now we are equal.
In fact, we're not only equal, but now we are equitable, which is the latest buzzword in the lexicon of woke leftists. The answer is they're gonna respond the same way they responded when we elected a black president. They're not gonna be satisfied.
The fitty thing is just going to encourage them to ask for more. Absolutely, positively, guarantee, I would bet my life on it. I would bet the farm on it if I had a farm.
That no matter what you do for these people, they're gonna say that's not enough. Justice has not been served. In fact, they will be insulted.
That you would even consider thinking that $333,000 per person came anywhere close to covering the cost of all the pain and suffering and inconvenience they have experienced for being the descendants of slaves. Now I'm pausing to think here, are we not paying them reparations now? I mean collectively as a society, as a country. You know, there is a reason why virtually everybody in the world wants to come here or to a Western nation.
That is because we are enhancing the lives of those who live here. We enhance the lives of everyone everywhere, but even more so if you have the opportunity to live among us. That's why they're breaching the border walls.
You know, nobody is clamoring to get out of the United States. There are not hordes of people risking their lives in boats trying to get to Africa or to Northern Africa. No one is trying to climb over the border wall to get into Mexico.
They're all coming this direction. And by the way, I don't blame them, most of them. I'd do the same thing if I was in their position, situation.
That doesn't make it right, but still that's the reality. But the point is, the reason they're coming here is because we are enhancing the lives of everyone. How is that not reparations? If you live in the United States of America at this very moment, you're living at a point in time and a place in geography, which is the apex of humanity.
I mean right this very moment, technology is at its very apex. Now, I was watching a YouTube video yesterday and it was talking about, they were talking about artificial intelligence and how this is going to significantly enhance the lives of everyone. Our lives have already been significantly enhanced and still they're complaining, still they're griping.
It doesn't matter how good you make it. Or we make it, you know, Western technology, Western people. It doesn't matter how good we make it.
They're still going to want to be a part of it. And once they are, they're going to complain. They don't say thank you.
Okay, maybe a few of them do. I hear some Africans now and again on the internet with podcasts, whatever, who are very grateful patriots for having the privilege of living among us. And they tend to be not only patriots, but conservatives and guess what? It pains them to say it, pains the left to say it or admit it, but they tend to be Republicans.
But not very many of them. The fact of the matter is, if you are a descendant of a slave, you've been living in the United States, your life is being enhanced immeasurably by virtue of the fact that you are here, just by virtue of the fact that you are here. Even without equality, you have equality, but even without that and even without the bogusness of so-called equity, we are pushed to the front of the line.
Say for example, there are two people who have kidney disease. One is like you and one looks like me or 99.5% of me. Guess what? You get pushed to the front of the line.
They call that equity. It goes beyond equality. So what I'm saying is you want 14 trillion dollars? $333,000 per person.
And I'm saying that you've already got it. Just the fact that you had the privilege and are having the privilege of living among us, that's it. That is your payback for all the pain and suffering, which is questionable.
But living here now, that is reparations. If you got something out of this video, give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to share this on social media.
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