Why is Booker's statement powerful? Because you agree with it?

"Slavery was one of the worst mass crimes ever perpetrated on a people, but black people in America are better off than black people anywhere else in the world. And that's a fact."

How do you know that? How do you know that black Americans have it better than black people anywhere else in the world? I like to see you substantiate this bizarre assertion. What proof?

and if slavery is a great crime, what is it's blessing to those slaves???????

and this topper:

"Reparations would involve taking money from people who didn't own slaves and paying it to people who weren't slaves. That crime would be as egregious as the one that was taken against any member of the black race."

I see. Taking money from someone is as big a crime as whipping, beating, kidnapping, selling, working to death, raping, murdering.

You have both a sense of proportion and a great grasp of logic.