However, let us be honest. The welfare state is the worst thing that could have happened to black Americans. As Sowell in his writings and Charles Murray in Losing Ground have noted, black incomes were rising far faster relative to incomes of white Americans before the passage of the Great Society laws in 1965. Only after blacks became mass recipients of transfer payments by the state did the rate of growth of black incomes compared to those of whites become slower. Let's face it.
Reparations are nothing more than a call for even larger amounts of transfer payments to blacks.
Almost anyone with a brain can see that the Great Society was a huge failure. Had America not gone that route, the condition of black Americans would be much better than it is today. Should this newest fraud become law, we can expect to see living standards for blacks deteriorate even farther. No doubt, when this happens, there will be a new generation of activists calling for another round of reparations. Apparently, they will need more cash to help speed up the healing process.