Some Exponential Benefits of Reparations

A lot of white people that I talk to about reparations contend that paying reparations to descendants of slaves would transfer wealth unfairly to people who have not earned it at the expense of the white people who pay it. Both of those contentions are based on flawed logic. The first flaw in the logic is that it is an unfair transfer of wealth. Black people have systemically had their wealth stolen from them through labor practices, business practices, and outright theft of property. The second flaw is that only white people would pay reparations. Reparations would be paid from the treasury which would collect the money from tax payments. Even Black people will be paying reparations.

I don't make my bias toward the payment of reparations any secret. What some people may not understand, though, is that I think paying reparations is not only the right thing to do, I also think it would help fix some other problems that plague society. Here are some of the exponential benefits for society in general that would follow the payment of reparations.