BeeLine: The Reality Behind Reparations

Thursday, October 2, 2025

The Reality Behind Reparations

There is a reality behind the argument for reparations for African Americans that the proponents fail to mention.

Only 4% of the entire African Slave Trade ended up in the United States.

This is a fact that is not taught in schools.

I doubt those making the argument for reparations are even aware of the reality.

I have cited this data in these pages before but it bears repeating as we continue hearing calls for reparations to be paid for the descendants of slaves in the United States.

Brazil ended up with more than 10 times the number of slaves as the United States did.

Cuba received over twice the number of slaves the U.S did and Jamaica had three times the number.

In addition, in the entire time that slavery was legal in the United States, no more than 2% of the U.S. population ever owned a slave.

Considering all of this, what is the logical basis for reparations in the United States?

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If there is an argument for reparations in the United States isn't there a larger moral and legal obligation for Brazil and a number of other Caribbean countries (including Cuba) to provide reparations since 96% of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere went to these locales and only 4% to North America?

However, we never hear about the need for Brazil, Cuba or Jamaica to pay reparations.

Why not?

It is also interesting to note that while 300,000 Africans were brought to the American continent in the slave trade, over 400,000 white Americans died in the Civil War to end slavery in the United States once and for all.

Do the descendants of these soldiers not deserve reparations at least as much as anyone else?

Thomas Sowell also points out other inconvenient truths about the history of the global slave trade