Americas first black billionaire calls for reparations and wants his cut too

[Arjuna]

BET billionaire Robert Johnson calls for $14T in reparations — and wants a check too


America’s first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he wants his check just like everyone else.

“Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism,” the Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder told Vice.



Johnson, who owns several homes and heads an asset management firm, insists that means money for himself and other rich and famous black Americans, naming Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James.

In fact, he suggests they are more deserving, because they have a proven track record in putting their money to work — saying that reparations should be an investment program rather than charity.

 

[Jmac00]

so you want free money, so you can invest that free money, so you can make more money ~~~~ thats going to be a HARD NO

 

[togmaster]

My plan to get out of NY doesn't go far enough.

 

[Blimey]

Will there ever be honest discourse about the fact that large numbers of black people actually, quite simply hate white people? This guy wants a trailer park, poor white person to contribute to reparations for his business so he can get wealthier, because other white people many generations ago enslaved black people many generations ago?

We are witnessing in real time a society committing suicide at a very fast pace.

 

[Jmac]

Screw him, go after UK there the one who brought slaves to the new World it was England’s penal colony

 

[ajoep59]

Blacks have been getting reparations for years. Affirmation action, welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, free medical, Obama phones, etc. Please feel free to add any benefits that I missed. I'm sure they're many.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Will there ever be honest discourse about the fact that large numbers of black people actually, quite simply hate white people?

We are witnessing in real time a society committing suicide at a very fast pace.

I don't think this is as much of a color thing anymore but more of a values thing. We are at a point where half the country simply can't live with the other half. We can't even compromise. I'm ok with that because I know one half wants the right thing(s) and the other is just insane. Let the games begin already.

 

[tirwin1]

How that asshole can throw out the phrase "systemic racism" with a straight face is beyond me. It didn't seem to hurt him much now did it?

Richard Pryor had a very short lived comedy series decades ago. One of his sketches was a telethon for a "back to africa" movement.

If reparations cost $14 trillion but one way tickets back to the homeland cost far less, perhaps a deal could be made?

 

[S&W Fan]

 

[Deplorable Me]

I'm in big favor of returning Amerika back to the Indians. Everyone back to their homeland.

 

[fresch]

Umm, this is my Homeland!

 

[Bigfoot]

I think that they should honor the white Union soldiers that were killed during Americas Civil War.
And quit with the entitlement shit. Always wanting something for nothing.

Slavery was a, long, long, time ago... Fuck them and their reparations bullshit.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

We are witnessing in real time a society committing suicide at a very fast pace.

This x100

The wisest decisions we can make now are to position ourselves for the inevitable collapse.

 

[Phauxtoe]

I thought the Leftist (obama ) theory was if you are a billionaire, you got there on the backs of others!
No millionaires did it on their own either, according to b sanders, until he made a million (a money laundering pay off) of his so called book sales!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I thought the Leftist (obama ) theory was if you are a billionaire, you got there on the backs of others!
No millionaires did it on their own either, according to b sanders, until he made a million (a money laundering pay off) of his so called book sales!

*White male millionaire and billionaires



All others did it by hard work and overcoming sexist systemic racism and are still deserving of reparations and advantages to bring out fair equity.

 

[Cavalry]

What about the Indians, Chinese, and various European indentured servants? Don't they deserve something as well?

 

[Robin]

I don't know why, but every time I read shit like this, words from the distant past drift to the fore of my consciousness, clear and unmistakable as ordered by the range captain at Ft. Polk oh so many years ago, "Ready on the right, ready on the left, we are ready on the firing line. Lock and load one twenty round magazine".
Robin

 

[S&W Fan]

I'm in big favor of returning Amerika back to the Indians. Everyone back to their homeland.

What about the Indians, Chinese, and various European indentured servants? Don't they deserve something as well?

My wife, of North American Indian descent has been asking the same thing.

 

[Blimey]

I'm in big favor of returning Amerika back to the Indians. Everyone back to their homeland.

Brought to logical conclusion, we should pay reparations to native americans before blacks. They were here earlier, so let's have everybody get in line.

 

[repete]

Wait a minute here! He's the first black billionaire and got that from who? Black people, that's who. Using the same measuring stick as he is on the reparation's doesn't he owe black people for taking 'advantage of the them and making billions? Any way fuck him, he wasn't a slave and I never owned a slave. BTW why don't these people that are sooo offended by slavery do anything about the slavery that still exists today? It's all about "show me the money"

 

[Mosinitis]

A message to Egyptian government from a Hebrew.

PAY US FOR THE FUCKING PYRAMIDS!!!!!!

 

[spat]

The minute they pass reparations I suggest we all "identify as black".

Force them to legally define it. The resulting shitstorm will be glorius.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Drugs are bad Mmm ok

 

[2WheelGnnr]

I think I had a ancestor that wash burnt at the stake in the witch trials....can I get a reparation for that?!

my god....every wants something but no body wants t pay for it..or should!!!! so for now on when I buy chocolate milk with there be a reparation tax on that?!

 

[Dr. Evil]

No problem. As soon as the prince from Nigeria sends me the money I'm getting from helping him out.

 

[Bigfoot]

The minute they pass reparations I suggest we all "identify as black".

Force them to legally define it. The resulting shitstorm will be glorius.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Seriously F -it.

Tell the Treasury dept to hit CTRL-P and let it ride. Give out more free money than we can print.

Completely destroy the value of our currency and let the house of cards come tumbling down on itself.

I think the only way to stop it is a hard reset. This creeping relentless socialism is permeating every aspect of America. The only way it's going to go away is if there's a seriously high level of pain to america as a result of this and those who come through on the other side say "well that was a mistake, can't let that happen again". The laws of economics need to start doing their thing.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

My plan to get out of NY doesn't go far enough.

What I've been saying all along

 

[Cooolone]

Fuck this asshole!

That is all...

And oh...

Brought to logical conclusion, we should pay reparations to native americans before blacks. They were here earlier, so let's have everybody get in line.

Absolutely agree! We wiped this race off the continent! The above aforementioned group was allowed to stay and apparently thrive! Despite current popular social and democratic upheaval would have you believe! What you say?... How could that be? Well I'll say take you average African, and measure that to your average African American... I'd say those that are here, they're doing much better! Prove me wrong!!!

Lmao

 

[Saltwater60]

Must be my fault he’s a billionaire. Also with all those racists how could this have happened.