-By Warner Todd Huston
An African American Georgetown University professor thinks that in the face of a lack of government policies each white person in America should start a personal bank account from which they can individually pay blacks reparations for slavery.
Georgetown sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson said that he thinks white Americans should start what he calls an “IRA,” or an “Individual Reparations Account,” with which whites can save money to then distribute to black people, black organizations, or black charities.
Dyson made the suggestion in a new interview with The New York Times Magazine’s Ana Marie Cox aimed at flogging his upcoming race-tinged book, “Tears We Cannot Stop, A Sermon to White America.”
In the book Dyson notes that white people need to be penalized for being white, but since government seems unable to levy this penalty, white people themselves should individually start their own “IRA” bank account from which blacks can be paid back for America’s “peculiar institution.” But Dyson seems oblivious to the fact that the practice of slavery that ended over 150 years ago was paid for by the deaths of over 600,000 Americans during the ravages of the Civil War.
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Georgetown Professor Wants Each White Person to Start Bank Account to Pay Blacks Reparations”