Black billionaire wants white factory workers to pay him reparations

Oprah enjoys a giggle in “Promised Land”, her $100 million Montecito home (one of seven)

Oprah enjoys a giggle in “Promised Land”, her $100 million Montecito home (one of seven)

“I got mine, I want yours”, says Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
America’s first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he wants his check just like everyone else.

“Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism,” the Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder told Vice.

“And for that reason, black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying black people of all stripes — the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle — out of our pocket,” Johnson told the outlet.

Johnson, who owns several homes and heads an asset management firm, insists that means money for himself and other rich and famous black Americans, naming Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James.

He denounces attempts to split “reparations” into separate items like free housing, bulls’ penis snacks and defunding the police, and returning ghettos to their natural state as “placebo paternalism”:

“It’s just not one big bill or asking this country to stand up and apologize, and you’re not asking people to pay out of their paychecks,” he added of the current approach.