People hear the word “reparation” and they start trippin’. The idea that the descendants of people who were worked like beasts-of-burden — sunup ‘til sundown — to build this country should demand some compensation for work done is somehow baffling. “But what about poor white people suffering right now?” they ask. Trevor Noah had to explain it to one member of his audience. (And I don’t think the audience member had ill-intent.)
Audience member: Do you think reparations should just go to one group or should it target people who are in the same socio-economic group?
Trevor Noah: [...] Reparations means that you are repairing something that you’ve broken.
Listen to the rest of the lecture for yourself:
If the country can afford the recent tax scam, then it most definitely can afford to pay its debts to its exploited people: enslaved Africans for their labor and Native Americans for their lands.