The History of Reparations
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In 2014, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article for The Atlantic “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing discrimination of the 20th century, Coates made the case for financial reparations for the descendants of those who were enslaved in the US. However, the argument for reparations extends back much further than 2014 and also has significance beyond the Black American community. Today Danielle talks about one of the most controversial topics moving through American politics for over 150 years.
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Video after video, Origin of Everything just keeps knocking it out of the park. I’m so glad this project exists.
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission barely scratched the surface of what the apartheid government did to our parents, grandparents and our ancestors
Reparations can be included in a CLASS ACTION lawsuit.
Thank you Danielle and your team for making history, real history, accessible. I just noted that you sound different in this video, not your usual self as a host. I hope you are ok, please take care.
Danielle Bainbridge is so awesome, always thorough and well-spoken.
Reparations is like you loan somebody some money and when it's time to pay up they say they don't have it but you see them wearing new clothes.
Reparations should cover all those injustices that Black people suffered and still do in some instances. Black Africans were brought to America and forced to work with no pay. Black Africans free labor made this country wealthy that it benefits from today and they should be compensated with money and the resources to help their families and communities . Reparations for Black African Americans is Justice .
What i hate about political discussions is that people speak thru emotions rather than intellect
I think certain people associate reparations with “cheating”. They’re so blind to the fact that they’re privileged, they see any attempt to equalize things for others as them being given an unfair or unearned advantage. They automatically assume that everyone starts out on a level playing field without considering things like inherited circumstances (like social class and access to resources) and societal prejudice. Any reparations are therefore “discrimination”. This is really similar to the debate around the disabled people and accommodations
There was a pretty cool resettlement program in the Houston area. Never knew this because I'm white, even though I lived between two freedmen's resettlement areas. Yeah, I went to kids school with black kids from Carverdale and west county. I had older black teachers teaching history and social studies who used to teach at Carverdale. We learned about the Civil Rights movement and we never knew that they used to teach in a segregated school located in a resettlement community. I never knew to ask. I had the whole history in the classroom and they could not speak and I did not think to ask.
I don't think we can move forward as a nation until we address the horrors of our past, including slavery, reparations and telling the truths of our history; not what we wish it would be.
If done right reparations would be cash payments over time, land, along with. Government policy. Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore are the only ones seriously talking about this right now.
Thank you for this informative and nuanced presentation, Danielle. Great work!
Has always amazed me how we act as though reparations aren’t a real thing that our country and countries around the world have done. It’s been mythologized to be something that it isn’t.
I loooove learning from this channel!!
I seriously want to thank everyone responsible for this channel. I value the information presented and everytime I watch I learn something new
Agreed.
Here in the UK they paid the slave owners for loss of "property" around half the UK's GDP.
Thank you for this video. It cleared up some misconceptions I had.
The USA tries to lecture every country about human rights like China for instance. Can you imagine the US trying to lecture other countries about human rights and crimes against humanity while paying reparations for centuries of slavery? Like a Florida, they rather teach children it’s ok to be a slave as long as your slave owner teaches you a skill.