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Jamaal Bowman's "reparations" bill is awful for many reasons. One is that it is race based when it needs to be STATUS based. However, he does get the funding part correct. The US government is a monetary sovereign. It can and DOES generate any amount of money it needs WITHOUT raising or collecting taxes. Inflation is avoided by disbursing money in increments. America uses debt to generate money in the form of bonds, or they cancel debt altogether as we have canceled TRILLIONS in corporate debt, war debt, and currently, with the PPP loans. The only argument against reparations for Black Americans (Freedmen) is anti-black racism, period.

No one alive in the US today deserves reparations for slavery. Reparations will rip this country further apart when we have a suffering people of all colors. Handing out government money (ie taxpayer money) to citizens regardless of need and just because of who their ancestors were, is abhorrent. Even if we could magically give everyone a million dollars, there would still be many talking about “microaggressions,” “systemic racism,” and “racist” roots of our nation. It wouldn’t solve our nation’s problems or our individual issues. There are older black Americans who likely do deserve financial compensation because they themselves were directly affected by harmful racist policies that were still in place, but not everyone who is merely a descendant of a slave, no, and not younger Americans who’ve never actually had to deal with legal or systemic racism—despite what they claim. Just because you have an oppressed mentality, doesn’t mean you’re actually oppressed.