{"id":577065,"date":"2021-06-30T07:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577065"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:06:35","slug":"americas-first-black-billionaire-demands-reparations-america-must-atone-by-paying-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-first-black-billionaire-demands-reparations-america-must-atone-by-paying-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s First Black Billionaire Demands Reparations: America \u2018Must Atone By Paying Black People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-first-black-billionaire-demands-reparations-america-must-atone-by-paying-black-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Robert-Johnson-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Robert Johnson, the founder of BET and America\u2019s first black billionaire, is demanding that American \u201catone\u201d for slavery and racism by paying black people $14 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Vice News interviewed Johnson, who said that he has seen a new kind of reparations taking place.<\/p>\n<p>The report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88nmez\/robert-johnson-bet-reparations-racism-slavery?utm_source=vicenewstwitter\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>The new \u201creparations\u201d is&nbsp;critical race theory&nbsp;education, it\u2019s the housing&nbsp;grant program in Evanston, Illinois, it\u2019s the $5 billion of&nbsp;targeted support and debt relief for Black farmers, and it\u2019s the&nbsp;$50 billion in corporate pledges&nbsp;in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder dedicated to combating systemic racism and inequality. (Even though just $250 million, or 0.5%, has actually materialized so far.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Critical Race Theory is a racist and Marxist ideology that is facing major backlash across the country and a federal judge temporarily blocked the $5 billion of targeted support for black farmers as the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/23\/us\/politics\/biden-debt-relief-black-farmers.html\">likely violated<\/a> equal protection under the law because it discriminated on the basis of race, which is racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s happening to the reparations\u2014it\u2019s been cut up into small pieces of things that look and feel like, \u2018We want to end systemic racism, we want to end police brutality and shootings and to provide financing to Black small business owners,\u2019\u201d Johnson complained to Vice News.&nbsp;\u201cAnd then people can say, \u2018Well, we really don\u2019t need reparations because when you put all of these things together, it\u2019s reparations. It\u2019s just not one big bill or asking this country to stand up and apologize, and you\u2019re not asking people to pay out of their paychecks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said that \u201creparations\u201d must have two components: atonement and money. \u201cWith no doubt whatsoever, it was supposed to come from the government representing the people of the country,\u201d he claimed. \u201cIt was reimbursement, or recompense if you will, for the harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added, \u201cReparations would require the entire country to \u2026 admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism 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 \u2014the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle\u2014out of our pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of reparations is politically very toxic as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/504511-1-in-5-supports-reparations-in-new-poll\">only 20%<\/a> of the country supports that extreme and divisive measure. Even Democrat President Joe Biden, when he was a senator, blasted the idea of reparations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-opposed-quotas-in-1975and-he-was-right-11552430539\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson made racially divisive comments about white people in an interview with CNBC last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/19\/5-black-business-leaders-on-reparations-and-the-racial-wealth-gap.html\">saying<\/a> that reparations were a chance for \u201cwhite Americans\u201d to express \u201cforgiveness and manifest their atonement to Black Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson made divisive comments in an interview last year with Fox News anchor Bret Baier when he said that \u201cunless white America recognizes the need for reparations to atone for this, this country will always be, as the Kerner Commission reports it, separate and unequal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Johnson, the founder of BET and America\u2019s first black billionaire, is demanding that American \u201catone\u201d for slavery and racism by paying black people $14 trillion.Vice News interviewed Johnson, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313709,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Robert-Johnson-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"America\u2019s First Black Billionaire Demands Reparations: America \u2018Must Atone By Paying Black People\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Robert-Johnson-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"America\u2019s First Black Billionaire Demands Reparations: America \u2018Must Atone By Paying Black People\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}