Event The US and Slavery. Some surprising numbers.

1. It's only money.
2. Once paid, nobody has an excuse to complain anymore.
3. It's the RIGHT thing to do.
4. Win/win for everyone.

 

My guess is he chased too many parked cars and developed drain bamage.

 

1) Projects were concentration camps. No, that wasn't a good thing at all, and it is even more cause for reparations.

2) "You got your reparations, go forth and prosper."

3) People who win the lottery often go bankrupt. But at least they had the opportunity. Reparations is all about opportunity denied, stolen, and denied through murder. It's about the inability of generations to build up family wealth. Of course not all people who receive the reparations will be successful - probably most will go bankrupt. But it only takes a small % to be successful for reparations to be a massive win for everyone.

Reparations is giving money owed these people to these people to spend as they see fit. It's something of an insult, IMO, to tell them "we spent your money on your behalf" while claiming things like projects were of great benefit. Those places were nice when built, but the government didn't maintain them. Lead paint peeling off the walls. Elevators that didn't work, forcing people to carry their groceries up 6 flights of stairs. Segregation led to poor environment for entrepreneurship. Lack of hope led to violence.

Your #2 is resolved by letting these people spend their own money - money owed to them.

As long as government does its most important functions, reparations cannot help but be a success. Those functions are to protect the citizens and to protect their property.