Duke University professor William Darity spoke on a Tuesday episode with Dr. Phil about his plan to give reparations to the Black Americans that are descendants of slaves.
“The first condition is that reparations should be paid to Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States,” he said. “The second is, how much should be paid? The amount should be dictated by the disparity in wealth between Black and White Americans, which at the current moment amounts to in excess of $840,000 per household.” He described his “objective,” is to “eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States,” noting that this “would require an expenditure of $14 trillion, which would be distributed evenly across the 40 million Black American descendants of U.S. slavery. That would be approximately $350,000 per person.”
Dr. Phil chimed in on the topic and explained how he feels like Darity’s plan would be an absolute disaster. “If you take $350,000 or $840,000 and you write a check to any group of people. Black, white, poor, homeless. If you give any group of people that much money and say there you go, best of luck and you come back in six months, they’re going to be broke.” He said.
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“So whatever reparations are done that would be an absolute disaster opposed to guidance and help in creating generational wealth as opposed to income. That would be an absolute disaster.” He ended.
Veteran civil rights activist Bob Woodson was also a guest on the show and is currently making headlines for condemning the idea of reparations for past slavery.
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“When you go into slavery, it’s much more complex than all White people were the oppressors, and Black people were the victims,” he said. “If you dissect it, you will find there were about 3,700 free Blacks who owned 12,000 slaves — Black slaves. The question is, do the descendants of those free Blacks who owned Black slaves, do they pay?”
“Blacks really benefited more the first 100 years after slavery than we have in the last 50 years,” he said. “I was born in 1937 during the Depression. Everyone in my small, low-income Black community, 98% of the households, had a man and a woman raising children. Elderly people could walk safely in that community without fear of being assaulted by their grandchildren. Never heard of gunfire during that time. Never heard of a child being shot to death in the crib, but there are 50 children today who have been shot and killed in our cities.”
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