The BBC reports on the comments of a UN judge, Patrick Robinson, that the estimate his group, the Brattle Group, has produced in their report "Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery" is an underestimate:
You need to bear in mind that these high figures, as high as they appear to be, reflect an underestimation of the reality of the damage caused by transatlantic chattel slavery. That's a comment that cannot be ignored.
The total reparations bill the report assesses 107 trillion dollars or 87 trillion pounds.
It seems that in the viewpoint of many organisations, it does not matter if monies have been paid; for the original sin of ethnic origin, certain demographics must be made to pay and pay and pay again, until all assets have been transferred from people have have never owned slaves to people who have never been enslaved.
Also note the terms of reference: Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery
Can you see how narrowly-focused this is to ignore all other slavery, past and present, but ensure that taxes can be levied upon the demographics that it's fashionable to despise?
Oh, the terms have reference have been carefully crafted to ensure the buck stops with the Euro nations and America.
If you read the report, they've gone full CRT here. Any difference between white and black populations - earnings, incarceration rates, life expectancy, wealth, all of it is assumed to be due to racism and all of it is assessed as payable as taxes due to black populations simply for being white.
So any difference in average earnings now is arbitrarily determined to be down to me enslaving black people and thus due for reparations.
They also seem to carefully curate the interest rates they use over the centuries, embracing the highest interest rates they can find, but discarding low or negative interest rates - gotta pump those numbers up, right?
The BBC reports on the comments of a UN judge, Patrick Robinson, that the estimate his group, the Brattle Group, has produced in their report "Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery" is an underestimate:
The total reparations bill the report assesses 107 trillion dollars or 87 trillion pounds.
It seems that in the viewpoint of many organisations, it does not matter if monies have been paid; for the original sin of ethnic origin, certain demographics must be made to pay and pay and pay again, until all assets have been transferred from people have have never owned slaves to people who have never been enslaved.
Also note the terms of reference: Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery
Can you see how narrowly-focused this is to ignore all other slavery, past and present, but ensure that taxes can be levied upon the demographics that it's fashionable to despise?
How much of those trillions need to be payed by the africans that sold the slaves?
Oh, the terms have reference have been carefully crafted to ensure the buck stops with the Euro nations and America.
If you read the report, they've gone full CRT here. Any difference between white and black populations - earnings, incarceration rates, life expectancy, wealth, all of it is assumed to be due to racism and all of it is assessed as payable as taxes due to black populations simply for being white.
So any difference in average earnings now is arbitrarily determined to be down to me enslaving black people and thus due for reparations.
They also seem to carefully curate the interest rates they use over the centuries, embracing the highest interest rates they can find, but discarding low or negative interest rates - gotta pump those numbers up, right?