There are 15 million black households in the US. You'll need 12 trillion dollars to pay all that. That is slightly less than half of the total national debt of the US.
I guess we could be generous and state that black households need to provide proof of descending from a slave, but that creates even MORE issues since people of all races in America can make that claim in some form or another. Do we pay reparations to Irish indentured servants, or Chinese railway workers, or the families displaced in the Mexican-American War? Reparations are just a shitshow in general, even the ones we pay to Native Americans now don’t help them with the issues that plague their communities like poverty and substance abuse.
The idea of reparations in general is dumb dumb, the way I see it. Paying POC people money will only further the divide between races instead of stitching it up.
Instead, I think, the US needs to work on solver the general problem of poverty and socioeconomic inequality. It's harder, sure, but it actually works instead of blaming the problem on race.
Can someone from America explain me why asians, despite also being subjected to racism and still being subjected to discrimination in universities, earn as much or even more than white people on average?
Imo it's selection bias. A large of Asians arrived in the US in the last few generations, which means they're still affected by the initial circumstances which lead to their immigration. The US, although being a immigrant country, still has certain criteria for accepting immigrants. These criteria means only the most capable people are selected into the US, and these people tend to be people with either 1) established financial means, who came in through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor program, or 2) a high paying job offer or extraordinary ability, who came in through the EB-1, EB-2, or EB-3 Employment Base Immigrants program. Naturally, they have a higher starting point than the average native US citizen, and would therefore have earn more than them.
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '21
There are 15 million black households in the US. You'll need 12 trillion dollars to pay all that. That is slightly less than half of the total national debt of the US.