The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, there may be a commission and there may be hearings (look up Coleman Hughes vs TahaNesi Coates), but actually doing it would be a tough sell. Like, what about people such as Kamala Harris who presents as black but has slave ownership as her heritage?
We already paid reparations, it's called the civil war, we paid with 600,000+ American lives for their freedom.
We’ve been here before...that’s why there’s a place called Liberia. Free tickets for anyone that wants reparations.
Careful, they killed Qadafi for wanting gold backed currency.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, there may be a commission and there may be hearings (look up Coleman Hughes vs TahaNesi Coates), but actually doing it would be a tough sell. Like, what about people such as Kamala Harris who presents as black but has slave ownership as her heritage?