So I was watching someone talk about reparations for black folks, it got me to thinking.
So lots of the slaves brought to America came from places like todays Congo and the DRC, where the average person makes like $400USD…a…fucking…year!
Murder rate is much higher, average life span much lower, income mobility much worse.
Slavery lasted about one generation in the US, you were forced to work, but had food and a bunk provided, not a good life at all, but like back in Africa wasnt a cake walk ether with their station in said society.
Post emancipation proclamation, blacks still didn’t have full rights, but compared to how life would have been back in africa
A few generations go by and now a poor American black person makes money that would make them the 1% back in todays DRC, their likelyhood of seeing a much older age, education, etc is also still vastly higher in the US
Now combine look at the US average cost of crime by race, the average government assistance by person by race, subsidized school or work opportunities due to race
Would the average modern American black person (as all the slaves and slave owners are looong dead) have been better off of their ancestors stayed in Africa?
Now would the average modern American white person, based on that same P&L list, have been better off if way back in the day America didn’t get involved with importing slaves from Africa.
Just curious, but my hunch is the hipster/BLM types still talking about reparations wouldn’t like the answers if the topic was really broken down in a business sense. Perhaps the ones who would be owing money might not be who they think?
Yeah yeah, taboo topics these days.
So lots of the slaves brought to America came from places like todays Congo and the DRC, where the average person makes like $400USD…a…fucking…year!
Murder rate is much higher, average life span much lower, income mobility much worse.
Slavery lasted about one generation in the US, you were forced to work, but had food and a bunk provided, not a good life at all, but like back in Africa wasnt a cake walk ether with their station in said society.
Post emancipation proclamation, blacks still didn’t have full rights, but compared to how life would have been back in africa
A few generations go by and now a poor American black person makes money that would make them the 1% back in todays DRC, their likelyhood of seeing a much older age, education, etc is also still vastly higher in the US
Now combine look at the US average cost of crime by race, the average government assistance by person by race, subsidized school or work opportunities due to race
Would the average modern American black person (as all the slaves and slave owners are looong dead) have been better off of their ancestors stayed in Africa?
Now would the average modern American white person, based on that same P&L list, have been better off if way back in the day America didn’t get involved with importing slaves from Africa.
Just curious, but my hunch is the hipster/BLM types still talking about reparations wouldn’t like the answers if the topic was really broken down in a business sense. Perhaps the ones who would be owing money might not be who they think?
Yeah yeah, taboo topics these days.
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