Hollywood content has become insufferable with political messaging.
Liberals creating the movies and shows aren’t even being subtle with their activism.
Now one Hulu TV series is pushing reparations that would cost taxpayers $14 trillion.
For decades, hard-left activists have been calling for slavery reparations to be paid to American descendants of slaves (ADOS).
The debate was reignited by former Atlantic columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates in a 2014 piece called “The Case for Reparations,” and has been picked up by other “woke” activists.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times series The 1619 Project, is pushing the reparations narrative in a Hulu series.
The 1619 Project was slammed by historians on both the left and the right, but it was still feted with awards and acclaim.
In Hulu’s The 1619 Project, a documentary miniseries based on The Times series, Hannah-Jones interviewed a Duke professor who argued that ADOS should each receive $350,000 in reparations.
Left-wing Duke economist William Darity, Jr. told Hannah-Jones, “If we use the racial wealth gap as our standard, each individual should receive about $350,000 dollars since there are 40 million black-American descendants of slavery out of a total of 45 million black people in the United States. That would mean that the total bill would be approximately $14 trillion dollars now.”
He also added that the federal government, not individual people, would be footing the reparations bill.
#1619Project #1619Hulu #Reparations #NOW #Racist #AmericaFirst #blackhistorymonth2023 #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #FACTS #BIDEN #KamalHaasan pic.twitter.com/ngFjETzdbU
— Paris Sorel (@ParisSorel) February 10, 2023
There is so much wrong With Darity’s argument.
First, the federal government is funded by tax receipts, so that does not change the fact individual taxpayers would be on the hook.
Second, any shortfalls not covered by tax revenue would have to be filled by the Federal Reserve pumping more dollars into the economy.
A $14 trillion price tag in addition to the spending to fund the federal would be an ungodly tax bill.
That would mean massive inflation, which is already at 40-year highs.
Adding $14 trillion into an overheated economy would be incredibly reckless.
Next, there are several factors that go into wealth gaps between groups.
For example, old people tend to have a lot more money and wealth than young people.
Therefore, if one group has a higher median age, that group is far more likely to have more wealth than a group with a lower median age.
That is only one factor that would have to go into a multivariate analysis.
Also, it’s unclear who would receive reparations and in what proportion.
For instance, Hannah-Jones’s mother is white, so would she get the same as someone whose parents were both ADOS?
Communist activist Angeles Davis recently found out that she had slave owners and a Mayflower descendant in her lineage.
“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Our researchers discovered #AngelaDavis’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction. #FindingYourRoots pic.twitter.com/G2HhA9BSrT
— Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) February 22, 2023
Logistics aside, the entire enterprise is morally wrong.
People who were never slave owners should not be forced to pay people who were never slaves.