Robert L. Johnson, Founder Of BET And The RLJ Companies, Issues Statement And Proposal For Full Black American Reparations

Is $14 trillion too much to ask for the atonement of 200 plus years of brutal slavery, de facto and de jure government-sponsored social and economic discrimination and the permanent emotional trauma inflicted upon black Americans by being forced to believe in a hypocritical and unfulfilled pledge that “all men are created equal”? This is an existential question that this nation has failed to answer since the end of the civil war. However, this question demands an answer today if we, Black and White America, are to coexist as a...