Talk show host Dr Phil has no background in governmental police, nor in African American history – yet he’s offering his opinions on reparations, Media Take Out has learned. And just as you would have imagined, it’s NOT going well.
On Friday’s show Dr Phil discussed reparations with his guest William A. Darity Jr., a Duke University professor who co-authored From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
Darity said every Black descendant of slavery should receive $350,000 in reparations. But Dr. Phil said handing broke people that much money would be “an absolute disaster.”
He also questioned whether the U.S. government could find $14 trillion to give reparations to that many Black Americans.
“I can tell you from a psychological perspective that if you take $350,000 or $840,000, and you write a check to any group of people, Black, white, poor, homeless, whatever, you give any group of people that much money and say, ‘There you go, best of luck,’ you come back in six months, they’re going to be broke. Whatever reparations are done, that would be an absolute disaster, as opposed to guidance and help in creating generational wealth, as opposed to income.”
Darity explained that only some of the folks receiving the cash would be irresponsible with their money.
Black Twitter weighed in on the reparations issue. Many on Black Twitter blasted Dr. Phil for blocking their potential blessings.
“Dr. Phil is a f–king idiot”
“Cash Reparations are owed & I don’t give a f–k what anyone “thinks” about it. The law is the law, crimes against humanity never expire, wage theft is illegal. Black Americans are owed what was taken from us. F–k all this talk. #CutTheCheck.”
“Dr. Phil got some nerve after Okra put him on!”
Another tweeter wrote:
“Black American Slaves fought in the Civil War. Also Reparations is paid because of past harm, a war does not erase the harm. Example: America saved Jewish people from extinction and they are STILL getting CASH Reparations from multiple countries because of the harm done.”