Taking Reparations Seriously

The premise of the reparations movement is that, had African Americans come to the US by voluntary immigration, as US whites had, and not subsequently been victims of racial discrimination, redlining, etc., they would be in a much better economic position. Hence, per the argument, they are owed money to make up the difference. For the sake of argument, let's accept this for the moment, and assume that some appropriate, one-time payment could be made that would render the supposed debt paid in full.

This raises the question: how much would such a payment amount to? There may be any number of ways to calculate this number, but the following is my own, based on common sense and cursory research.

First, some basic numbers to put things in perspective.

"In 2016, white families had a median net worth of $171,000, compared with $17,600 for blacks and $20,700 for Hispanics."
"3.25 people in the average Hispanic household
2.90 people in the average Asian household
2.51 people in the average Black household
2.37 people in the average non-Hispanic White household"

now some basic math
median white wealth: 171,000/2.37=72,151
median black wealth: 17,600/2.37=7,426

72,151-7,426=64,725

Thus, functionally, the MAX. reparations bill would be $64,725 per African American. But how much would this cost nonblacks?

some figures:
US total population: 327,200,000
US black population: 37,144,530
US nonblack population: 290,055,470

final math:
(37,144,530 x 64,725)/290,055,470 = 8,288

Would you be willing to pay $8,288 to never hear about racism again?

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They already get reparations. It's called welfare and public housing.

zero sum fallacy.
the correct amount of reparations is no reparations.

you really think they won't call 9k a slap in the face?
you think they wont call ANY reasonable amount a slap in the face?

>median black wealth: 17,600/2.37=7,426
Shouldn't that be divided by 2.51?

This. It will never be enough, so it may as well be 0.

>Would you be willing to pay $8,288 to never hear about racism again?

It's time to start ruthlessly butchering white progs, boomers and wasps. The real enemies.

so we've given them reperations 20x over already.

>Would you be willing to pay $8,288 to never hear about racism again?
no

According to Census figures, only 42 percent of blacks are on assistance programs in the average month, yet 100 percent of blacks bitch about racism.

"The black population: At 41.6 percent, blacks were more likely to participate in government assistance programs in an average month."

So what about the 60 percent of blacks who aren't on the dole... Should they get the $64,725?

Keep in mind, the upside is, whenever you hear about muh racisms, muh redlining, you just say "PAID IN FULL, DARKIE".

I think there is some merit to the idea.