YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
The co-founder of BET, or Black Entertainment Television, is calling for $14 trillion in 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'?" Robert Johnson said in a statement.
Johnson is advocating for every descendant of African American slaves to be paid $350,767 over the next 10 to 20 years.
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