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Originally Posted by Bay Kid
Will people be happy once all the remembrance of the past is removed?
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No way! They want reparations for what was done to their ancestors. Here’s a paragraph on what that might cost from a New York Times article on that topic from 2019:
“What would Sherman’s promise [40 acres and a mule] be worth today?
“Mr. Darity has been mulling that question for years, and is writing a book on reparations with Kirsten Mullen, due out next year. He begins with the cost of an acre in 1865: about $10. Forty acres divided among a family of four comes to 10 acres per person, or about $100 for each of the four million former slaves. Taking account of compounding interest and inflation, Mr. Darity has put the present value at $2.6 trillion. Assuming roughly 30 million descendants of ex-slaves, he concluded it worked out to about $80,000 a person.”
What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019 - The New York Times
Who pays for that? You do.