Reparations

BET founder Robert Johnson said that America needs to pay $14 trillion in reparations for slavery as a way to close the wealth gap. Johnson is a Princeton graduate and a self made billionaire and part of the one percent.

Well, if we look at the cost of the war on poverty, Mr. Johnson may be a little short. It costs $80 billion of year to operate jails. Half of the jail population is black. We’ll say we spent one trillion a year to incarceration over the past 55  years. We spend 60 billion per year for foodstamps, with 25% of black people on foodstamps which equals 15 billion per year. Over 55 years, well estimate 600 billion. For housing; either in the projects or section 8, the federal government alone spends 50 billion per year. Figure $100 billion in public housing and Section 8, and 75% of those in the program are black, 75 billion a year over 20 years is $1.5 trillion alone. Again these are low ball estimates. As for direct welfare payments, we spend over one trillion per year. We’ll say $500 billion for 20 years with a cost of TEN trillion! As for Medicaid, the US spent 613 billion. 40% of the recipients are black which equals 245 billion per year. We will say 3 trillion over 55 years. Then the costs of Housing Authority Police Department. A housing authority police department is a certified police department whose primary purpose is to protect and serve the overwhelming amount of poor black people in public housing projects. Well add one trillion for that!

Don’t forget to factor in the loss of tax revenue from the loss of jobs, and business thanks to the black underclass, also factor in the cost of crime in terms of lost wages, stolen property, doctor bills and so on. Add one more trillion. So we are at $18.1 Trillion! So the black community owes us at least $4.1 trillion!

As for BET, it has been an embarrassment for black people for over 40 years! In the infancy of BET a popular show of black stand up comics had Schlitz Malt Liquor ads pop up during a comic’s performance! On a show called 106 and Park, they allowed R&B singer Robert Kelly come out in the same outfit as his teenage bride. The network dedicated thousands of programming hours to misogynistic rap videos glorifying the “thug life” of easy money by way of criminal activity, smoking weed, and making women sex objects. The movies played; same thing. Then there is the BET awards. Award “muscians” for thuggin’ and singing thggin’ songs.Then there’s Lil’ Nas X and his oversexualized performance with a kiss of one of his dancers! Boondocks creator Arron McGruder destroyed BET with his Black Evil Television episode.

I don’t recall BET putting out PSA’s for stopping black on black violence, parental responsibility, practicing safe sex, or be a productive member of society. As for Mr. Johnson; I don’t recall him doing anything for his impoverished viewers in DC. There is nothing n DC with his name on it. Hell, Ben’s Chili Bowl did more for black people than Mr. Johnson. Check out the celebration of black “entertainment.”