Reparations have been a disaster where they've been tried. I always like to point out the Obama Administration's settlement with a series of Indian Tribes which resulted in a $1.1 Billion settlement.
These were effectively checks directly written to tribes that were relatively poor and did have legitimate grievances. The tribes themselves had specific members who could be legally identified and then compensated by their own tribal governments.
It was a disaster that the activists themselves called a genocide.
It was hyperbolic, but you get the severity of the complaint.
Upon receipt of these government checks, the tribal governments basically went to war with their own people. "Tribal Disenrollment" became a thing as different political factions in the tribes set up their own racial laws to make sure individuals could prove their status as members of the tribe. The racial laws were designed to target political opponents from getting funded as everyone squabbled over the checks. The tribal governments would then keep payments for themselves rather than re-distributing them, or would remove people from the membership roles to keep the size of they paychecks high.
The political infighting dragged on for a decade until the payments finally stopped, no real improvements in any of the tribal lands or reservations took place, due to political infighting the tribal membership rolls had been slashed (sometimes over 50%) which further weakened their political power, and everyone was now generally worse off and hoping for another round of checks.
That is what reparations looks like under the best case scenario.
Reparations have been a disaster where they've been tried. I always like to point out the Obama Administration's settlement with a series of Indian Tribes which resulted in a $1.1 Billion settlement.
These were effectively checks directly written to tribes that were relatively poor and did have legitimate grievances. The tribes themselves had specific members who could be legally identified and then compensated by their own tribal governments.
It was a disaster that the activists themselves called a genocide.
It was hyperbolic, but you get the severity of the complaint.
Upon receipt of these government checks, the tribal governments basically went to war with their own people. "Tribal Disenrollment" became a thing as different political factions in the tribes set up their own racial laws to make sure individuals could prove their status as members of the tribe. The racial laws were designed to target political opponents from getting funded as everyone squabbled over the checks. The tribal governments would then keep payments for themselves rather than re-distributing them, or would remove people from the membership roles to keep the size of they paychecks high.
The political infighting dragged on for a decade until the payments finally stopped, no real improvements in any of the tribal lands or reservations took place, due to political infighting the tribal membership rolls had been slashed (sometimes over 50%) which further weakened their political power, and everyone was now generally worse off and hoping for another round of checks.
That is what reparations looks like under the best case scenario.
That's funny to me considering what the first round checks did to them.
That's the point of creating a dependency system.
Welfare Junkies make excellent slaves.
You haven't seen true nepotism at work until you've personally experienced tribal politics.
Voting blocs run almost exclusively along family lines.
In Canada, the worst enemy of the red man tends to be his own damn band council members.