{"id":72334,"date":"2015-08-07T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72334"},"modified":"2015-08-07T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:35:48","slug":"are-american-blacks-owed-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72334","title":{"rendered":"Are American Blacks Owed Reparations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/christopher-caldwell-on-ta-nehisi-coates-call-for-endless-reparations\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:  So it\u2019s difficult to imagine much negative impact on American per capita wealth in 2015 in an alternate universe without the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell that nobody takes very seriously the argument that African-Americans have been much of an economic boon for white Americans since 1860 by how so much black economic resentment in recent years is focused upon, say, white rappers like Macklemore for \u201cappropriating\u201d black innovations in popular music.<\/p>\n<p>But outside of a handful of areas like pop music, it\u2019s hard to make up a list of how blacks have, on net, made whites much money over the last 150 years, and easy, if forbidden, to notice how blacks destroyed many white urban homeowners\u2019 net worths in the postwar era. If blacks were such moneymakers for white elites, you wouldn\u2019t see white elites so unified in their urge to import immigrants to propel African-Americans out of elite cities, which is behind much of the furious Establishment denunciations of Donald Trump, that class traitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: So it\u2019s difficult to imagine much negative impact on American per capita wealth in 2015 in an alternate universe without the slave trade. 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