Speaking Monday to CBS This Morning, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson cast doubt over the feasibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves, calling the logistics “unworkable.”
“What I would say about reparations is, you know, show me a mechanism that works,” Carson challenged interviewer Jericka Duncan when asked about the concept. “You know, I did my DNA analysis. OK. I’m 77% sub-Saharan African, 20% European, 3% Asian. So how do you proportion that out to everybody?”
“If you can prove you’re a descendant of a slave, though, do you think it’s worth having a conversation?” Duncan asked the Trump administration official.
“Yeah, but what percentage of money do you get? What percentage of reparation? No one is ever going to be able to work that out,” Carson responded.
“Proportionately, you’re not going to be able to figure it out. And where do you stop it? It’s unworkable,” he then added. “I would much rather concentrate on how do we provide the opportunities for people to get into a better economic situation now.”
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I want reparations for the death of my ancestors that fought and died in the civil war. England brought slaves to America bought slaves from Muslims and used Jewish merchant vessels... these groups are responsible not America
ReplyDeleteAgreed, dumb idea
ReplyDeletethey've already had way way way too many handouts
ReplyDeleteReparations advocates are looking for life changing money that can create a whole new class of criminals who want what others get, regardless of how much (if any) their share is.
ReplyDeleteDr Carson is a very smart man.
ReplyDeleteIt’s really just about creating divisions between Americans to weaken the country
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