Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, says it's time America atones for slavery and systemic racism by paying African-Americans reparations to make them economically equal to white Americans.
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"Nobody talks about cash, but black people understand cash," Johnson told Fox News.
Johnson contends white Americans built generations of wealth on the backs of slave labor, and black people will never be able to catch up in wealth unless they are paid this debt.
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Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Robert Johnson says American owes African Americans $14 trillion in reparations.
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Q: Your plan calls for $14 trillion to be paid out to descendants of slavery over the course of 30 years.
