When whites just don't get it, part 5

[KingCharlemagne]

34. Look, I've long been a proponent of a Guaranteed Annual Income for

every citizen and permanent resident, independent of his or her employment status or anything else.

The idea of society agreeing to pay reparations is FAR, FAR more important than the actual per-person dollar sum finally settled upon. It is a recognition by society that it committed massive wrong(s) and is now finally owning up and doing penance for the sins of the past that have led us to this pernicious present.

A program of reparations COMBINED with an affirmative action program based on socio-economic factors would go a long way, with the right moral and political leadership, to 'dealing with' social and political unrest. The only people to be injured by such a combination would be the upper 1%. And it's not like it's really going to even crimp their styles much anyway. But it might just offer American a path back from the moral abyss into which she finds herself staring right now (where 1% of the population controls as much wealth as the bottom 40% combined and the top 10% control as much wealth as the bottom 90% combined).