Well, I hope we still can discuss difficult topics. — ssu

Take out their families — Donald Trump

What actually happened was:

"Tea Katai made the posts on her Instagram story earlier this week, and the Galaxy angrily condemned them as "racist and violent" on Wednesday. The posts included a photo with a caption written in Serbian urging police to "kill" protesters, another referring to protesters as "disgusting cattle," and a third sharing a racist meme." — Baden

Alexander Katai was dropped from the LA Galaxy because his wife commented “Black Nikes Matter” on an Instagram video of looting. — NOS4A2

According to the Kaiser Foundation, roughly a half million blacks are born each year in the United States.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/births-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

So, just as a place to start, let's say each new black person born gets a one million dollar life time voucher they can use for any educational experience which could boost their ability to earn. If I've done the math right (have I?) that comes to 500 billion dollars a year for the maximum cost of the program. Most people won't need that much, and many won't access the benefit, so the real price would probably be considerably less. How much less, I can't say.

This is the kind of nuts and bolts analysis I'm seeking help with.

The goal here is that we put our heads together and try to zero in on the cost of the benefit to the degree possible on a philosophy forum. It's not serious to throw out some lofty sounding idea if we don't have any idea what it would cost, and thus don't know how realistic it is.

A key aspect of this proposal is that the richest 1% pay for it. Thus, when anyone complains about the cost of the plan 99% of the time we can respond with, "this doesn't affect you".

But before we can claim the 1% can pay for this plan we need to know roughly how much it would cost, and roughly how much money the 1% have. — Nuke

There's been a LOT of discussion of race relations in recent weeks, and as usual the vast majority of the discussion focuses on emotion and vague calls for various kinds of largely unspecified change. We are told we are supposed to take race relations very very seriously, which is good, but apparently not seriously enough to actually do anything big and specific about race relations problems.

So, this thread will attempt to replace a pattern of vague emotional statements with a policy proposal which is both ambitious and specific.

In the spirit of getting serious, let's try to do more than just fire off some opinions and on the spot analysis provided as fast as we can type. Read that sentence again please.

Instead, I'm hoping you can help me nail down the price tag for the following proposal.

PROPOSAL: Every black American and American Indian should be provided totally free education (tuition, books, living expenses, everything) for any educational experience which can boost their income earning potential. This plan should continue until such time as the vast wealth gap between these groups and whites is erased. The plan should be funded by the richest 1%, that is, those who have most of the money and who have benefited most from America's rigged system.

Here are the kind of questions I hope we will address:

1) How much would such a plan cost? How many people are we trying to serve and approximately how much money is required to serve them as defined above?

2) What would the impact of such a plan be on the 1%? Would they barely notice? Would their economic position be crushed? How much money do they have, and how much of that would such a plan take from them?

If you don't like this plan and would prefer another one, ok, no problem. In that case, please start your own thread outlining your own plan. Thank you. — Nuke

'Black Lives Matter' ... now is a national terrorist organization — ernestm