Reparations: Who pays whom?
by Calvin Robinson:
The argument for reparations never makes much sense. There seems to be a fundamental flaw that no one has addressed: Who would pay whom?
We know there is no such thing as government money. There is only taxpayers’ money. Demanding the government donate money to a particular demographic is, in fact, demanding they redistribute our money to people based on their skin colour. The premise is undeniably racist.
What would happen, in reality, would be poor black people paying money to rich black people unless the reparations were means tested. Even then, what are the qualifying criteria for receiving reparations? How black does one have to be? Should we prove our lineage? I’m mixed-race; should my white mother give my black father a cash payout? Of course not. How do we know our ancestors were slaves and not slave traders themselves? And that goes the other way around, too – the average white Brit at the time of the transatlantic slave trade was below the working class, practically living a life of serfdom; slavery was an industry of a small elite, therefore why should the average Brit carry any guilt?
This obsession with the transatlantic slave trade is unproductive. What about every other form of slavery? History is rife with the evil of slavery.
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