re: Reparations - Moving $13 Trillion in Wealth among Black Americans

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Most blacks are not the descendants of slaves. Most black migration occurred post Civil war.

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1) Reparations are a REALLY stupid notion

2) if possible, the quoted assertion is even more stupid than the notion of reparations.

There are approximately 40mm Blacks in America, of whom approximately 4mm immigrated here since 2000. Black immigration prior to 2000 certainly existed, but the numbers were negligible. The total number of non-native Blacks in the entire country was 3/4 of a million in 2000.

Then you have to look at the ancestry of the KIDS of immigrants. If an immigrant marries a native, the KIDS will have ancestors who were slaves, even if one parent does not.

Refugee populations tend to marry other members of the refugee community in the first generation, but MOST Black immigrats are NOT Somali refugees. Non-refugee immigrants are MUCH more likely to intermarry with the existing population.

Then we can look at country of origin. The two largest are Jamaica and Haiti, where most citizens are descended from ... slaves. Number three is Nigeria. There are a whopping 300,000 Nigerian immigrants, and they tend to intermarry

In short, “reparations” are stupid policy, but advocating against them with stupid srguments just makes you look ... stupid.