Alan Keyes has an idea for "slavery reparations" for modern descendents of slaves. (Eugene Volokh and Paul Caron comment.) Basically, Ambassador Keyes wants to exempt blacks from paying income tax for 50 to 60 years. I think this would be a bad idea for all sorts of reasons, but that's not what I'm writing about.
In a previous post on interracial marriages I noted that:
African-American men had white wives 2.65 times more often than black women had white husbands. In other words, in 73 percent of black-white couples, the husband was black. For every 1,000 black women who were married, there were 1,059 black married men.But consider that Keyes' plan would create a financial incentive for men of all non-black races to marry black women! Assets and income could be transferred to the wife's name, and the children would all be tax-exempt!
You are so right.
I remember when all these men married Jewish women to capitalize on the reparations paid to those who descended from camp survivors... Swiss banks were raped and pillaged, German companies who profited 50+ years ago, art owners who legitimately purchased artwork are threatened with lawsuits until they give up the artwork whose disappearance resulted in so much "emotional loss" (so much so, thet upon retrieving the artwork it is immediately auctioned off)
Wouldn't the hit on the US economy from 20-40% of the citizenry suddenly exempt from paying taxes be so colossally huge as to be laughable?
What is he thinking?
So, how does one define "blackness" for tax purposes? Ghetto culture? One-drop rule? Provable slave descent? It's easy to say "let's help the blacks" but "the blacks" are not an easily defined category of people.