Its more complex than that. Lets say your ancestors were originally from the US but sent to the Caribbean and you have proof. How could you not qualify ?
@@Jeff-xv6gk If your ancestors built America during slavery and were sold like commodities to another plantation outside America you dont deserve reparations ? What is the logic here ?
You say N!GG2r and its ok. you say us and its OK let someone white in public say you people and you get all skunk ape over it. How about you get a job and stop with the hand outs. Its like going to a zoo where the Giraffe come running over because they know free food handouts are coming. Learn to fix the rot that is black culture. Learn to rely on yourself and not handouts. Learn to act like normal humans and stop Burning Looting and Murdering. Just learn to be good people.
There have been several government policies throughout history that disproportionately excluded or disadvantaged black Americans, limiting their access to wealth-building opportunities. Here are a few examples: 1. Slavery and Jim Crow laws: Slavery itself was a government-sanctioned institution that denied black Americans their freedom and economic opportunities. Even after the abolition of slavery, the implementation of Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation and perpetuated systemic inequalities. 2. Redlining: In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) implemented a practice known as redlining, which systematically denied mortgage loans and financial services to predominantly black neighborhoods. This discriminatory practice hindered black Americans' ability to purchase homes and build equity, contributing to long-term wealth disparities. 3. Discriminatory lending practices: In the mid-20th century, practices such as "racial zoning" and "restrictive covenants" prevented black Americans from buying property in certain areas. Additionally, discriminatory lending practices, such as predatory lending and racial bias in mortgage lending, further limited black Americans' access to credit and fair loan terms. 4. Exclusion from New Deal programs: Some New Deal programs implemented during the 1930s, such as the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act, initially excluded agricultural and domestic workers-occupations predominantly held by black Americans. These exclusions limited access to crucial social safety nets and worker protections. These policies and practices, among others, contributed to the racial wealth gap and hindered black Americans' ability to accumulate wealth and access economic opportunities. ✂️👉🏾✅
@@rack9458Obama was born in Kenya and is a puppet for symbolism. He's not a Foundational Black American and doesn't know our struggles, which means he doesn't represent Foundational Black Americans! I'm 36 years old and own multiple successful businesses in Los Angeles, and the majority Blacks I know are doing well. With that being said, my group of Foundational Black Americans are still owed reparations and we will get the reparations!
@@menewsome I'm black and the last thing I or anyone in my family needs is reparations! If you think race relations are tense now after all the BLM crap, just wait till reparations are paid!
@@rack9458 Are you a Foundational Black American? If so you and yours don't have to receive the reparations and if your aren't a Foundational Black American you have no say so. Black Americans don't care what these people do when we get reparations, there's literally nothing they can do that they haven't already. You keep living in fear, I can show you better than I can tell you what I'm about.
Time doesn't pay debt. The Indians were given reparations in 1946 for land and territory that were stolen hundreds of years before the reparations were paid out. America is indebted to the black commmunity for hundreds of years and the time is now for the reparations to be paid
@Jackie Smith Reparations is not a free for all. It's for all who were forced to work free. There's a criteria, an injustice that establishes the necessity of reparations.
@Chief Sitting American The US dollar every day is losing value. We're on the verge of an economic collapse. A dime today, won't be worth a penny tomorrow. Speaking of today, the U.S. owes $31 trillion worldwide. If they can't pay the living, then they most certainly can't pay the dead. But whether they can or not, Uncle Sam is in debt and in bad shape.
In 2005, JP Morgan Chase, currently the biggest bank in the US, admitted that two of its subsidiaries - Citizens' Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana - accepted enslaved people as collateral for loans. If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ownership of these slaves. JP Morgan was not alone. The predecessors that made up Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are among a list of well-known US financial firms that benefited from the slave trade.
You realize that democrats were the pro-slave and republicans fought for their freedom right? I say this because most vote democrat and yet nobody talks about it.
This is the same Chase Bank (the boat was registered to them)that a couple years ago had a ship, seized at a port with the payload of 300,000,000 pounds of cocaine on it!!!?? 🤦🏽♀️ that sure blew out the headlines real quick!
It's interesting that there is 2 black people representing opposite sides when the vast majority of black people are on the same side on the issue. The disagreement is between black and white. Let this be a lesson on how they do things.
It shouldn't be a disagreement between blacks and whites. It was black Africans that sold fellow black Africans into slavery. First point of call for reparations is Africa.
Of course black people are on the side of more free stuff without having to earn it 😂 Fun fact: only 8-10% of black Americans have slave ancestors the rest came after slavery was ended. Only 3% of America owned slaves out of that 3% over 7,000 slave owners where black. Out of the 2 million slaves in America at the time over 300,000 of them were white. But if this is the route we want to go African Americans owe me a lot of money because my ancestors are Irish so if you are Muslim or African decent I want my reparations for the centuries of slavery and genocide on my people they committed
When ever Black people say the word Reparations all of the other Communities say what about us when ever the subject is on Black people we got to change the subject right? Come on man there is no other Race that have went through what Black people went through y'all can say y'all understand about you don't To thus day it is still a crime to ve Black in American a country many call Great
@PakalChicxulub From those who enslaved Americans, but not from Americans in general. A large percentage of American's ancestors were not even in America during slavery like mine. It should go without saying that we should not have to pay.
@@bay5005 You obviously don't know that slavery in the United States hasn't ended. It might look different, but it's still there, and it's not just "black" people any more.
@PakalChicxulub Police are (state and local) government supported entities so it's clearly not a genuine comparison. Slavery was conducted by private citizens and not the Federal Government. There was a Civil War over this issue because it was never supported on a National level. Therefore, the plaintiff would sue the private entity and not the Federal government.
So I wonder why nobody mentioned Native Americans, their descendants definitely get reparations. Seems very dishonest for nobody to not mention them at all. 🤔🤔
@bettyboopsie9836 discrimination is discrimination whether native American, Asian, Black etc, don't think anyone should put a monetary value on it. What happens if these people want more when they blow through it, it's a bad precedent to set 👎
Thanks Chuck Todd, good interview, Black were given Land that was taken back, Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule, never received it, someone should be accountable.
@@BassGuitar4life Apparently you also need a civics class. General William T. Sherman DID promise some freed slaves plots of land of no more than 40 acres. Read Special Field Order No. 15. Abraham Lincoln was in agreement, but was not re-elected. Andrew Johnson, the next President, reneged.
@@leftway5282 Oh child. Military authority is subservient to civilian authority. Now go read about the history of the field order (40 acres and a mule stupidity) and get back to everyone.
If you feel strongly about your people's suffering, than definitely create a coalition or join current organization and go for it. Who is stopping you?
Reparations are not going to happen. Floating it like it’s actual idea only serves to make more than half the country mad, and makes them turn off to hearing any other requests or arguments. By pushing for this you are shooting yourselves in the foot. It might sound fine in certain circles, but more broadly, even on the left, it’s a non-starter.
Ending slavery and getting civil rights made more than half the country mad, and we got it done ANYWAY. The white majority will always be on the immoral side of history. We don't care about your racist feelings.
I live in California. It’s already been promised. If black people asked for equity based on what most white American wants, black people would still be living in 80% poverty, educated by inferior outdated text books, and legally banned from voting in the segregated South.
REALLY? Instead of finding Black People to present FACTS to back up why cash payment reparation is important, you find 2 immigrants to speak on it. OF COURSE, they're going to be against it, they're not qualified to get reparations.
When the checks are being dispersed, make sure that i receive this guys check!! He's so out of touch with black America 🇺🇸. Reparations are due! Let my people go, Pharoah!!
Simple question but why is nobody asking for reparations from the people that actually enslaved these people and sold them into the slave trade, I find it strange that this is never mentioned and black African Americans seem to just accept and are even proud of their African brothers whose ancestors enslaved them in the first place, It is odd when you think about it particularly with the amount of hatred towards whites for simply being white. Why is there never any mention of reparations for the direct descendants of the white people that fought in the civil war to end slavery particularly those that were killed for the cause and why don't Black Americans love these same decedents instead of thinking that they are the enemy
@dorothywashington In what world would someone pay for what they haven't done to people that it wasn't done to. The people you want to pay are the decedents of those that fought and died for freedom. Reparations are a joke and making a division and by the way check your history those Africans that had been enslaving other Africans for hundreds of years before a white man had even seen Africa knew exactly what they were doing, guess they just wanted a bit of money for nothing, ring any bells ??????
Reparations should’ve been paid to Black Americans decades ago. Because the anti Black American racism was so vicious when payment should’ve been paid we are at this point.
No. No slaves alive today and no slave owners alive today. It would be the innocent paying money to someone who has had no crime committed against them. Totally ludicrous.
Reparations was paid to japan reparations was paid to victims indirect victims and and victims descendents if that can happen why can't they pay blacks reparations
@@Keys-gj1yi i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
I hate how they always set us up to be divided. If the young man thinks he doesn't need or want what we as a people are owed he can just leave it on the table!!! More for the rest of us.
How are we supposed black people supposed to unify when you cant even tell who is black? Coleman Hughes is a hispanic person he is NOT a descendent of American Chattel Slavery. There is NOT a divide because he is not one of us. Be smarter than this. A simple google search would have told you this.
@@sageex3931Evil ideas. Your talking about a social credit score that needs to include DNA, ancestory and lists of other criteria to asign reperations, educational priority and diversity hiring. Disgusting.
slaves are not supposed to get paid !! thats what " slave : means !! and the people who are asking for reparations are the ones benefiting from slavery!
The dumbest comment ever lol!! We might as well pass a bill to eliminate nepotism and passing inheritance down to those who are born into wealthy families since they were not alive when the wealth was created
@@KL-cy1wcjanuary 6 would be a joke compared to all the riots from many other protests you people pretend never happened. However you want reparations for your ancestors pain and suffering? Im sure they'll roll over in their graves about that but heres how you can get it go see your relatives in africa because slaves were first sold by their own people in Africa because they were that poor. Or you could always pay yourself
@@KL-cy1wc Weird how you people always bring up Jan 6th when the blm riots were the MOST damaging riots in US history. There's places that still haven't recovered and probably never will. Over 3 billion dollars in damages.
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America. NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News. These people have no shame (or dignity).
@@Chief-et6xk majority of non-color Americans in the United States today majority of their families come from Europe after slavery was abolished that’s why majority of white Americans can trace the roots to Italians, Irish, and so on…. Modern African-Americans today were never slaves. They don’t deserve a dime from those who never own slaves.
That phrase comes from the Bible which is the book that Europeans used to justify and convince itself of their right to commit genocide and uphold slavery of human beings...
The Consitution was written in 1776 and their descendents are still following this document in 2023! I guess Coleman hasn't heard of the Seminole War, and Rosewood. Many of the descendents received Reparations!
The American dollar isn't backed by the gold standard any more, it's based on housing mortgages. They're getting dealt like stocks on the American stock market, another financial concept that should never have become a reality. What high finance did in 2008 has filtered down to residential housing. All Americans should have worried when they were told they didn't have to pay rent in the pandemic.
I guess we could say that about the prices of anything now a days, ever since Covid and the shut downs the prices are on steady up climb, I’ve started taking pictures of the prices I pay so I can compare from week to week. Getting really hard to be retired on a fixed income. It’s all just big buisness, the banks going under, the over building of homes and banks lending to people that down understand a mortgage or lending practices and in 24 months or less they see they can’t afford it. Moderation america, people it’s a matter of supply and demand, don’t buy what you don’t need, change expensive habits, use and reuse what you have, don’t be wasteful and it will help your dollars and lower big business million and billionaire take home pays.
Sadly, the "normal" involved is boundless greed and corrupted government that is providing "oversight" of greedy corporations. These specific aspects of that come to mind: Companies have been underpaying for assets taken from public lands ... legally "stealing" from taxpayers when, in fact, much more of the profits from use of public assets should be used to pay government expenses. More recently it has become even more obvious than ever that fuel companies have been price gouging, with increased fuel charges having a domino effect on prices across the entire economy resulting in inflation. Businesses have "unions" (though, generally they oppose for workers) ... it's just that business "unions" are called "trade associations" instead. This includes financial institutions. Banks, that get money from the supposed government/private "partnership" of "the Fed" at a very nominal interest rate meet to CHOOSE to inflate their profit, gouging individual and business consumers and increasing the inflation. Monopoly and near monopoly. The greediest of the wealthiest pursue monopoly because controlling supply enables the control of pricing. The ever widening economic gap will continue to grow ever wider unless and until the wealthy cease to be able to use their wealth as political power to write the economic laws and commerce rules that keep that our corrupted capitalism self serving for the rich.
It's not just the cost of the house in reality. The real issue and the one everyone ought be angry about is the amortization scheme that applies to homes. The one thing we need most, scammed by the loan sharks. ...and the...gubment, let's it happen and encourages it for the sake of business and tax money. It's as if they really don't want to BUILD up the country, nor it's people. Just a percentage.
There is no statute of limitations for murder. Only when that promise is fulfilled uninterrupted it doesnt matter how long ago it happened. It still happened and was never repaired. There children benefited back then and some still today from the works of slavery which they are trying to continue with prisons system.
@ninobrown724 You must be speaking for yourself. Never is a strong word. Have you ever heard of modern day slavery? I agree with you that yes we need to work like everyone else. But even that statement is easier said than done. Because 9 times out of 10 you are going to work for? Who is your boss right now that hired you. As far as never owning slaves is the narrative they try to push. It's been swept so far under the rug ever since. It's like a game of Monopoly. You start off with a few 500 dollar bills and a few 100 dollar bills to get you started in this game of life. But for Black's in America the majority never got to start off with any money and was forced to roll the dice anyway and landed on go directly to jail. No inheritance. Yes there are a few who made it but that percentage of the overall majority is very small. Their are other nations of people who have received reparations. Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule and where did that end up going? You can't honestly sit here and say that white people haven't benefited with a wild head start from slavery which even after the emancipation proclamation was passed slavery took on a new form in the prison systems. Why do you think there was a Civil Rights movement in the 1st place? It never got repaired. They gave welfare programs and made people dependent on the government instead of setting them up to be self sustainable. Now I'm not saying slavery is like the way it was before but if you don't understand the new form it took then maybe that's something you should check into.
@@ninobrown724 well then by your logic why should young Jews still get reparations even tho they never experienced the holocaust?also white Americans won't be paying the reparations
Not only with the prison system, but, many other tactics been, and being practiced long before we and many ancestors were born. They are masters of many types of manipulations. But, God is bigger than these people and their even schemes and plans. 🙏.
Coleman Cruz Hughes (Born: 1996) is a child and has no real idea about discrimination in America. If his parents grew up in America then they would have a deeper understanding of what is discrimination in this country.
If youre African American, as in Black American, and YOU do NOT want reparations... THEN DO NOT ACCEPT THEM! The rest of us WILL GLADLY accept them. Also, what does this guys mean by, "What do reparations look like in today's 21st century?" Like bruh, what do you mean? Money. OBVIOUSLY MONEY!
As a White brother I don't think your gonna get it. Maybe African cheiftains have some cash for you? Or Liberia has a spot for you? I dunno man. You got good streets, a roof, a cellphone, university, library's, good public transport, jobs, comedy clubs, a decent multiculturalism going down? Stop thinking about being black all the fuggin time? It's driving you racist crazy lol
@@Snowstorm1200 If it had happened less than two years ago you could have sued and got your reparations.. But let’s be clear, what if they not only stole your bike but stole your entire family, sold them into slavery and you never saw them again.. Now, that’s something to hold onto…
@@Naesman1167that's ridiculous...you never experienced this...😂...you witnessed nothing ...were not damaged only live in freedom... sorry...I'd go get a better income ..
@@HERMETICSUBROSA You mean like the one you’ll be getting at 65 or 67? What about the handout to send your kids to school? What about the appropriations for project funding in your district to make fHsure you and yours have a place to live? FHA subsidy’s, handouts.. You’ve been taking handouts all your life.. Do whine to the Federal Government about the billions they send to Israel or Pakistan, or places like Urkraine.. You don’t believe in handouts right?
Apologies weren't enough for the Holocaust, it wasn't enough for the atomic bombings, Japanese interment, and it won't be enough for African-American people who have been made to suffer inhuman treatment for the past 400+ years in the western society. Even slave owners were given reparations during reconstruction. I find that Coleman Hughes doesn't have a coherent argument to make about Black people not getting much of anything. I sincerely believe that every black man or woman that thinks reparations shouldn't be paid should have to register a federal document in which reparations will NOT nor ever be paid to themselves, their children, grandchildren, and lineage and that money is to be split amongst those African-Americans that DO believe in reparations. That solves this whole question of who should get and should NOT get.
The first question should be, we're slaves owed repairations for their enslavement. If the answer is yes and they never received it, then that compensation should be made to their descendents. If not, then please explain why.
Because too much time has passed, and a great proportion of black people today can't trace their ancestry to a specific documented slave due to things like lost records, broken families, abandoned children, the foster care system.
If there's still a former slave out there then that person deserves reparations for having endured slavery. However all former slaves are long dead. Just as their spouses & children. The current generation can't claim to be a victim of and have suffered damages due to something that ended many generations ago. Claiming that is woke nonsense.
Every other racial/ethnic group that have been victims of atrocities has been compensated for their pain. Why can't Black Americans? It's not BA fault that the government waited 1,000,000 years to address the issue.
I really would like to know what tangible benefits would encompass reparations that’s different from food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, free phones, free housing, heating assistance, furniture vouchers, free transit, free clothing, free education, free programs, and everything else you get when you’re living off the system.
@@wilburgordon7606 I have learned, that they will not try putting nor doing anything beneficial for us if it does not benefit them...not all of them, but, perhaps most of them to say the least.
@@FirstLast-dy4gt That's exactly why the Rednecks kidnapped my people and brought them over here, and to other places, against their wills, ...For CASH...nothing but satanic. Not to mention the rapes and other inhumane treatments of our fathers, mothers, and children. Put up or shut up clueless ones
President Reagan, in 1988, issued a formal apology for Ex. order 9066, and paid reparations to surviving Japanese Americans….President Clinton, in 1993, formally apologized for the US role in overthrowing the Royal Monarchy of Hawaii. (1893)
No other group in America has had genocide, like black Americans! Slave owners were given reparations, because they were loosing their free labor! Let's start after slavery, no voting rights, lynching, Jim Crow, discriminated in education, health, and housing, towns flooded, burned and bomb! These things took place and still going on! Jews, Japanese, Indians, Israel still get reparations, and no one says anything about that. Your tax money goes to ALL of those, and it cost BILLIONS with my tax money! I don't want my money going to those groups either! Don't want an apology, cut the check, like the Government do for those other groups!!
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America. NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News. These people have no shame (or dignity).
Everyone must be held accountable except them, They gave slave owners $300 for every slave they had to free. Yet the people who were actually enslaved were given nothing. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
DESCENTENTS OF SLAVES HAVE THE EXACT SAME RIGHTS AS ASIANS OR WHITES ETC !! THEY CAN DO EVERYTHING AN ASIAN MAN WHO COMES HERE CAN DO !! LAZYNESS DOESNT JUSTIFY HANDOUTS !!
Statue of limitation for a crime is a double standard since there is a thing called a “RECORD !” Which means that people are held accountable for their crimes/actions centuries after they initially claimed another story
THEY DON'T WANT THAT LOL THEY WANT $$$$$$$$$$$$ SO WHY THE US?? $$$$ NOT THAT THEY WOULD GO AFTER THOSE THAT SOLD THEM LOL AFRICAN BASED !! IT'S ALL A JOKE
exactly ! move on !! i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
@@salamjihad3449But you have to think! The oppression didn’t end at slavery!! We as black people have been racially discriminated against any numerous ways since forever. So do some research before you try to "embarrass “ or talk down on a group of people dealing with a traumatic issue.
Why are we still talking about reparations? Couldn’t we just have every state creat a “Reparations Task Force” and let them “talk about it” for the next 20 years so we don’t have to. Reparations ain’t gonna happen.
That’s the goal… keep talking about it until it’s so far out whites will actually be able to say no one lived during times of legalized racial inequity. My parents were children in the degraded South and it most certainly determined the path of their life, my life, and their young grandchildren’s lives.
Tell me @ninadaly7639, WHY DIDN´T YOU PROTEST AGAINST THOSE OTHER GROUPS THAT RECEIVED REPARTIONS FOR WW2 AND THE NATIVE INDIANS. Repartions ain´t gonna happen? Scared that if it does, and it will, you will have to compete and pull yourself up by your own boot straps to make a living instead of having everything given to you and stop living off YOUR SYSTEM who you get your PRIVILEDGES and PROTECTING FROM THE LAWS DUE TO SKIN COLOR? Go back to sleep or better yet KICK ROCKS.
Our family came to USA with about $80 in 1980’s and now we make our living here. You tell me we will have to give money some other people for what happened to their ancestors 300 years ago… No!
I was born in arkansas in 1959 and jim crow was very much alive and enforced in my home town of helena, arkansas, one can never forget things like stepping iff side walks when whites were passing through, no eye contact with whites especially white women, being called various animal names, white babies pulling up your shirt tail because their parents told them we had tails.
I feel bad that you went through that. You are someone who actually does deserve to be compensated for Jim Crow laws since you actually lived through them. People now a days think they have it bad but really the system actually doesn’t favor anyone. It favors those who work hard. I’m glad you are out of that.
@@ninobrown724 fact yu right I probably don’t but I can probably bet your great great grandfather burned down the city my people was in where they don’t have any documentation of who they are so they can’t get the money out the bank meanwhile your family can get loans wit my people money so yeah yall owe & I work hard out here didn’t nobody leave me nothing & I’m not saying all Europeans are bad people but they did genocide an group of people just for land
@@ninobrown724 every other race or color of people get reparations except the BLACKS OR AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM USA so who really wrong when the police still shooting us and we unarmed in our bed sleep yea USA owe us it’s Hard for a black to get a loan. an European credit score is 750 at the age of 2. Meanwhile I’m being raised in an environment where the rent $25 & people getting shot every night as an kid & yu being raised on a farm yea America 🇺🇸 owe me
@@ninobrown724 look at the history of the way we was treated and you don’t think that is wrong. The USA paid Japan for the bombing they did to them & still paying for it. They paid Iraq 🇮🇶 for the destruction we did to them. I’m not saying you should pay me anything & yes I pay taxes & has an business & yes I do need my reparation from the USA because the euros are wrong for what they did now just pay for it mfs been waiting for years for it but the pentagon can send 6.4 billion to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when that’s the 4th check Biden sent to them. But we can’t get reparations. When Yu kno it’s gonna help the economy cause most of us is stupid and gonna go get a Cadillac instead of CREDIT so just let it fall through. Ukraine 🇺🇦 ain’t did nothing for USA 🇺🇸 REMEMBER THEY WAS PART OF USSR
Im sorry for the way their families arrived here and were treated before and after the civil war... If your going to go for reparations, then go after the people who were the slave owners.... Not just any white folks ... Just because youve decided your owed... Many Blacks also had slaves and it was oyther africans that captured the progenerators of those familes whose beginnings here in america 4:29 were slaves... Further America wasnt the only country that had slaves and many European countries continued to have slaves after 1865, hidden in the jungles of South America... So where would you cut off the reparations...
@@scinnyc No Fool I'm denying blaming those families That had NOTHING to do with it... Blaming a whole country and race for something only a few were involved in is the same nasty habit of. RACISM, and Racial Profiling or for that matter STEREOTYPING a whole group for a few bad apples.
I was removed from my job at HACLA because someone decided to give it to a younger white woman. That not only impacted my lifestyle while I workef but also my returement. It was common knowledge that I did my job extremely well while the white woman's only qualification was her skin. I was forced to leave California when I retired because my pension would not allow me to survive there. That's only one example of how I have been treated because of my heritage. I deserve reparations from the government, not some individual white persons who have no problems with giving Ukrainians billions and who never complained about giving housing vouchers and Social Security checks to russian jews living in west LA and beverly hills. Their handicap: they didn't speak english. If you can give billions to Ukrainians and others, you can give me and mine millions. Look how much is being spent on illegal aliens in NYC today. The stupid hatred of my skin is enough to justify reparations. That hatred has been used to deny us housing, jobs and freedom. I sat in.the court room watching Harold C Brown find EVERY Black person who appeared before him guilty while exonerating every white boy, even one who admitted he was guilty.
@@marianlincoln9008 😆🤔How am I a fool? The U.S. government was 💯% complicit in slavery, not just individual slave owners. The European countries that owned slaves in the Caribbean, South and Central America should pay reparations too. They sure had zero problem giving slave owners their reparations after the Civil War. Yes, many countries had slavery. But how many countries had slaves that helped build the most powerful nation on Earth without getting so much as a dime, while their descendents still faced unfair laws and policies for over a century afterwards as well as persecution until this very day?
This poll proves the US is a WS nation. We give billions in unearned reparations to Israel every year due to the actions of some other nation, but can't make whole the descendants of those whose "free" labor built this country. Reparations are owed to all ADOS!
This is where we go wrong… there is no reason to even debate this on national television. This displays our weakness as a people. We need to learn about optics.
My DNA is part English, part Irish, part Nigerian, part North African, part Iberian, part Baltic, part Finnish, and part East European. I'm going to owe myself a heck of a lot of reparations if this idiocy is followed to it's illogical conclusion.
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?@@salaam4771
If we held previous generations accountable for all atrocities against all people, not many societies would be free from debt. As far as equity, both of my parents' families were immigrants in the early 1900s. My wife's family was mostly from Germany and arrived between the mid 1600s and 1900. Some were indentured servants in the slums of NY. None had anything to do with slavery. Some of her relatives also died in the Civil War - fighting for the North. Why should any of my taxes or my children's taxes go to pay for repirations, when we had nothing whatsoever to do with it and even lost family to help end the worst of the atrocities towards Black people? What about people of color who immigrated here after the fact? Does an immigrant from Upper Volta get reparations? If we go back to Native Americans, the Lakota killed off most of the Pawnee... should members of the Lakota tribe be found to pay reparatoins to the ancestors of the Pawnee tribe?
Yeah, it's a impossible "policy" to implement. It's only here to divide, and is probably the singular issue that the GOP can win on if the Dems take the bait and run with it. Chuck Todd is a very sketchy individual for having this debate on his show.
It’s devastating when reviewing the comment section. History that you learned in school was sugar coated. Slavery did not end in 1865. I’m from Louisiana and my family is from a rural area. No one told them they were free in 1865. We have countless stories that are documented of African Americans in rural areas that were still in modern day slavery. Slavery was not abolished it was redesigned. So it’s sad when you see comments telling some in to get over it. This shows how out of touch people are of the affects slavery did. My great grandmother who told me her stories, worked on a plantation. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mom went to segregated schools. I have heard countless stories of how they were treated less than animals. I’m amazed how resilient black people are.
@@Ashley10E what? No I didn't. Segregation was only in the South in the years AFTER the Civil War. States like Vermont outlawed slavery 10 years before they even joined the U.S. & signed the Constitution in 1789. Prove it. Anyway what do you think Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was about?
@@c.rutherfordThe opinions of the descendants of plantation owners are irrelevant less repossess the possessions that originated from the plantation a****** You're against that too I'm sure!
The best form of payment to a slave owner for their slaves labor was MONEY…not economic or social or educational policies. So, in that spirit…pay Black American descendants of enslaved persons the MONEY they’re owed.
@@sistahb5159hey already got reparations. >Natives have special zones >Jews got a safe community with no red lining from professions >Japanese were paid by Reagan
0:18 ofc they would be supported by the black community. They’re the only ones who would get the reparations 😂😂😂 what about the Ireland people who were sold to the 13 colonies. Or what about the European men/woman sold to South Africa. If you pay 1 race, you gotta pay them all ❤️
Every society is history, including African ones, used slavery for thousands of years. European societies were the first in history to morally oppose slavery and abolish it in their own nations. We cannot tear ourselves apart trying to relitigate what happened in the past and we cannot continue acting like one group of Americans is inherently more guilty than the others. Reparations was paid in the blood of the hundreds of thousands of European Americans who died to free the slaves in this country and make it one of the first anti-slavery nations in human history
No, European societies were not the first to morally oppose slavery. Complete nonsense. Many societies globally did so independently, including African ones. Even during the slave trade there were ethnicities that refused to engage morally.
BLACK AMERICANS ENDURED SYSTEMIC SLAVERY UNTIL THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, AND BLACK AMERICANS FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR AND ALL WORLD WARS ALSO, THE DIFFERENCE IS, THEY WERE TREATED LESS THAN GARBAGE....PAY UP
Why is Coleman Cruz/ Hughes being given a platform to speak on Reparations? He isn't FBA. MTP needs to speak to people like TBA, Prof. Black Truth, Rizza Islam & Vicki Dillard about this. Bet you they won't.
YES I DO !! NO WELL BROUGHT UP PERSON WILL ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLES HARD EARNED TAX MONEY JUST BECAUSE SOME OF OUR RELATIVES WERE SLAVES !! HOW MUCH LOWER CAN WE GET !!!?? @@Randy.lorenzo
For anyone comparing what happened to blacks with ANY other race living in America (or anywhere else in the last 300 years) show me ONE other race (in the last 300 years) that was enslaved by another race for countless generations... Show me one other example (in the last 300 years) where basically an entire race throughout the entire country was enslaved... Had their children enslaved. Their grandchildren enslaved. Their great grandchildren. Their great-great grand children.... Show me another country (again, in the last 300 years) that was 100% economically successful because of a slave race (black) while the controlling race (whites) were made the most wealthy and powerful race on the planet (which they still are today). If you don't agree with reparations... That's fine... But comparing the enslavement of blacks with what happened to the Irish, Chinese, your granddad, or anyone else, is disingenuous af... I'd even argue that African Americans got it worse than Native Americans... Native Americans: Wrecked by disease, followed by a pretty one sided "war" with the whites, that they ultimately lost. Followed by the stealing of all of their lands, followed by their placement into reservations. Followed by... Wait for it... Reparations... Flash forward to today. The country is still ruled by white men, but... They LOVE Native Americans. White people can't wait to tell you how they're part (insert tribe here). Compare that to being a slave your entire life AND knowing that your children (and all your descendants for hundreds of years) will also be slaves (you are also forced to breed)... Then fast forward to today where a large percentage of the people who run this country (still white men ofc) secretly, or openly in the comment section, hate you.. Imho, it's not even close who got it worse.
The Chinese really don't deserve anything because 1: no one told them to come here and 2: they actually got paid. They easily could've just stayed in China. African slaves on the other hand were forced to come here and work for free
Chinese haven’t fought in every war the country has had. When P Harbor was attacked that was Asian people doing it. When did blacks attack the country by planes and bombs?? Never and still they were hung and put in trees no matter how much racist don’t wanna pay they’re gonna pay one way or the other kick the can down to the next generation. If your alive in 25 years from now your gonna see a bill being passed for reparations because blacks and Latinos will have the majority scientists say by 2050 America is no longer majority white if you think what let’s say 150 million people to 175 million people aren’t gonna have the power to make it happen your highly mistaken. That’s gonna get passed so fast like a budget bill. Kicking it down the line not addressing it now will force them to do it. You can bet on it.
The hustle is in the question. Though I believe you can, one doesn't have to go back to slavery to make the case for reparations. Just look at the constitutional violations in the 40's, 50', 60's that robbed Blacks of generational wealth, spawned the street gang culture that's pervasive in low-income Black neighborhoods, etc. All you have to do is read The Color of Law (also available as an audio book) to learn why reparations are deserved.
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
Millions of black Americans would have to pay reparations as well since there were 3000+ black slave owners in early America, cut to 1800s there'd be tens of thousands..if any of your ancestors benefited you'll pay too, LaVar Burton, Sonny Hostin ect. Reparations will never happen because that would be discrimination against people who never hurt anyone..and don't say the government will pay because that would end up being taxpayers.
Government sends billions of dollars yearly to Ukraine and Israel. Reperations would cost less than that. There’s really no argument against reperations except jealousy
He sure is that’s why all these talks and, studies are taking place. America must atone for one of its original sins of slavery through reparations & in different forms of compensation. They’re going to fight it tooth and, nail but I’m afraid it’s out of their hands!
It's a nice "high school debate class" topic. Personally, I can't wait until it's a college level debate class" topic titled, "Could you have survived the 20th century?"
We as a people have to constantly stand in front of the unjust judges of our nation and stand and stand and fight and fight in the court room , on our knees, day in day out to get those things that belong to us. Those who do not want their reparations send your check back to Uncle Sam when it comes but me I want mine.
what planet are you living in !! we have all the same laws and opportunities as any other American. we can all go to school and become whatever we want..if we work for it,,why should we deserve other Americans' tax money who had nothing to do with it? just as we had nothing to do with it? if someone won't hire you because you are black then take it up with the proper authorities as any other race would do! there are laws put in place for that, we are living in the 1800s son !!
How many courtrooms have you been on your knees in? You just want money you didn’t earn and don’t deserve. You didn’t suffer in the cotton fields but expect payment for someone else’s suffering. It’s disgusting, earn your own money.
what belongs to us is what we work for !! what we build ! what we earn !! we dont want tax payers hard earned money who are in the same situation we are in ! we wont take their money !
I am 100% in support of a one-way plane or boat ticket back to Africa. Just for the fact that they were not slaves. Sorry my ancestors were not slave owners
give a man a loaf of bread or a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to bake or how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime... The same goes for money (reparations) give a person $50,000 or $100,000 and you support them for a year or two, give them the means to make that money themselves by providing school, college, equal opportunity and you thus support them for a lifetime.
This is a nice thought, but slavery as servitude, whether bilaterally supported or not, has been an economic institution for centuries. Before industrialization, it would be impossible for massive civilizations to become what they were without the use of mass labor.
Of course they should. However, the trillion of dollars, land and resources owned would only be acquired through war. The oppressor will never give it up voluntarily.
@ninobrown724 , because the government is still the government, and they were and are still involved in the enslavement of millions of Black people to this very day. The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bans slavery or involuntary servitude, EXCEPT when it is used as punishment for a crime. Unfair sentencing and unequal distribution of resources. It's systematic, not individual based. The US owes trillions of dollars and land to Black people. We all know this.
You find a blk man speaking up for the uplifting of his people and they will find another blk man to oppose it.
_ Malcolm X
🎤Drop
Isn’t that the truth!
He is not from America😂😂. He wouldn't get reparations anyway. He just don't want us to get it.
Exactly that's why there are more Black on black crimes than white on white crimes. 🤷🏿♂️
Thats right We have no Unity as Black People and this is the result.
As a black American I don’t feel comfortable letting an immigrant discuss reparations for us because they don’t qualify so yes they are against it.
Its more complex than that. Lets say your ancestors were originally from the US but sent to the Caribbean and you have proof. How could you not qualify ?
@@pauobunyon9791 then you Caribbean not black American so you don’t qualify if your people were sent to the Caribbean
@@Jeff-xv6gk If your ancestors built America during slavery and were sold like commodities to another plantation outside America you dont deserve reparations ? What is the logic here ?
My family came to the US twenty years ago. So yes, for sure I am against it for obvious reasons.
You say N!GG2r and its ok. you say us and its OK let someone white in public say you people and you get all skunk ape over it. How about you get a job and stop with the hand outs. Its like going to a zoo where the Giraffe come running over because they know free food handouts are coming. Learn to fix the rot that is black culture. Learn to rely on yourself and not handouts. Learn to act like normal humans and stop Burning Looting and Murdering. Just learn to be good people.
If he doesn't believe in reparations then don't accept the payout!!
Or give me his share
Coleman hughs does not have American ancestry
Don't know no slave. Never been a slave
Thank you , and immigrants shouldn't have a opinion or be talking for foundational black Americans
He isn't going to get them because they will be LINEAGE based🫶🏽🖤1
3 white men discussing reparations
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Why not, the Romans and Vikings took Europeans as slaves. When do we get reparations?
There have been several government policies throughout history that disproportionately excluded or disadvantaged black Americans, limiting their access to wealth-building opportunities. Here are a few examples:
1. Slavery and Jim Crow laws: Slavery itself was a government-sanctioned institution that denied black Americans their freedom and economic opportunities. Even after the abolition of slavery, the implementation of Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation and perpetuated systemic inequalities.
2. Redlining: In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) implemented a practice known as redlining, which systematically denied mortgage loans and financial services to predominantly black neighborhoods. This discriminatory practice hindered black Americans' ability to purchase homes and build equity, contributing to long-term wealth disparities.
3. Discriminatory lending practices: In the mid-20th century, practices such as "racial zoning" and "restrictive covenants" prevented black Americans from buying property in certain areas. Additionally, discriminatory lending practices, such as predatory lending and racial bias in mortgage lending, further limited black Americans' access to credit and fair loan terms.
4. Exclusion from New Deal programs: Some New Deal programs implemented during the 1930s, such as the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act, initially excluded agricultural and domestic workers-occupations predominantly held by black Americans. These exclusions limited access to crucial social safety nets and worker protections.
These policies and practices, among others, contributed to the racial wealth gap and hindered black Americans' ability to accumulate wealth and access economic opportunities. ✂️👉🏾✅
Sounds like you are making excuses. Obama had no problem becoming the President of the US.
@@rack9458Obama was born in Kenya and is a puppet for symbolism. He's not a Foundational Black American and doesn't know our struggles, which means he doesn't represent Foundational Black Americans! I'm 36 years old and own multiple successful businesses in Los Angeles, and the majority Blacks I know are doing well. With that being said, my group of Foundational Black Americans are still owed reparations and we will get the reparations!
@@menewsome I'm black and the last thing I or anyone in my family needs is reparations! If you think race relations are tense now after all the BLM crap, just wait till reparations are paid!
@@rack9458 Are you a Foundational Black American? If so you and yours don't have to receive the reparations and if your aren't a Foundational Black American you have no say so. Black Americans don't care what these people do when we get reparations, there's literally nothing they can do that they haven't already. You keep living in fear, I can show you better than I can tell you what I'm about.
@@menewsome How is your black life any different than mine? Foundational or not?
Time doesn't pay debt. The Indians were given reparations in 1946 for land and territory that were stolen hundreds of years before the reparations were paid out. America is indebted to the black commmunity for hundreds of years and the time is now for the reparations to be paid
We need a Black tax period.😢😢
If we did then every white and other race would want to be considered as black for that kind of compensation. Even the Kardashians.
@Jackie Smith Reparations is not a free for all. It's for all who were forced to work free. There's a criteria, an injustice that establishes the necessity of reparations.
@Chief Sitting American The US dollar every day is losing value. We're on the verge of an economic collapse. A dime today, won't be worth a penny tomorrow. Speaking of today, the U.S. owes $31 trillion worldwide. If they can't pay the living, then they most certainly can't pay the dead. But whether they can or not, Uncle Sam is in debt and in bad shape.
@truth. I don't know the numbers but what about the whatever thousands or millions of whites in the US who have no ancestry to the slave days.
In 2005, JP Morgan Chase, currently the biggest bank in the US, admitted that two of its subsidiaries - Citizens' Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana - accepted enslaved people as collateral for loans. If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ownership of these slaves.
JP Morgan was not alone. The predecessors that made up Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are among a list of well-known US financial firms that benefited from the slave trade.
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Powerful facts, TY.
Thanks for sharing this! I just did a video on my channel highlighting how the slaves in Louisiana influenced today’s New Orleans cuisine.
You realize that democrats were the pro-slave and republicans fought for their freedom right? I say this because most vote democrat and yet nobody talks about it.
This is the same Chase Bank (the boat was registered to them)that a couple years ago had a ship, seized at a port with the payload of 300,000,000 pounds of cocaine on it!!!?? 🤦🏽♀️ that sure blew out the headlines real quick!
Why when sending BILLIONS N TRILLIONS to white foreigners the American government never ask anybody opinion?
It's interesting that there is 2 black people representing opposite sides when the vast majority of black people are on the same side on the issue. The disagreement is between black and white. Let this be a lesson on how they do things.
He's non black American. That would be like having Chinese speak for the Japanese and their reparations. It's a hustle they do.
There needs to be more studies on reparations
It shouldn't be a disagreement between blacks and whites. It was black Africans that sold fellow black Africans into slavery. First point of call for reparations is Africa.
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
Of course black people are on the side of more free stuff without having to earn it 😂
Fun fact: only 8-10% of black Americans have slave ancestors the rest came after slavery was ended. Only 3% of America owned slaves out of that 3% over 7,000 slave owners where black. Out of the 2 million slaves in America at the time over 300,000 of them were white. But if this is the route we want to go African Americans owe me a lot of money because my ancestors are Irish so if you are Muslim or African decent I want my reparations for the centuries of slavery and genocide on my people they committed
What about the Irish slaves? Why do Irish not get reparations?
When ever Black people say the word Reparations all of the other Communities say what about us when ever the subject is on Black people we got to change the subject right? Come on man there is no other Race that have went through what Black people went through y'all can say y'all understand about you don't To thus day it is still a crime to ve Black in American a country many call Great
@PakalChicxulub From those who enslaved Americans, but not from Americans in general. A large percentage of American's ancestors were not even in America during slavery like mine. It should go without saying that we should not have to pay.
What about poor white folks?
@@bay5005 You obviously don't know that slavery in the United States hasn't ended.
It might look different, but it's still there, and it's not just "black" people any more.
@PakalChicxulub Police are (state and local) government supported entities so it's clearly not a genuine comparison. Slavery was conducted by private citizens and not the Federal Government. There was a Civil War over this issue because it was never supported on a National level. Therefore, the plaintiff would sue the private entity and not the Federal government.
So I wonder why nobody mentioned Native Americans, their descendants definitely get reparations. Seems very dishonest for nobody to not mention them at all. 🤔🤔
Was just thinking the same thing
So many groups have been discriminated against, should write checks to just about everyone
@@superior120v5 do you mean the groups that CHOSE to leave their country and come here?
@bettyboopsie9836 discrimination is discrimination whether native American, Asian, Black etc, don't think anyone should put a monetary value on it. What happens if these people want more when they blow through it, it's a bad precedent to set 👎
@@superior120v5 the wealth gap is solely because of slavery. Literally the blacks in the us made all white people rich in America.
Thanks Chuck Todd, good interview, Black were given Land that was taken back, Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule, never received it, someone should be accountable.
No, you weren't. Take a civics lesson, a history lesson and learn how things work.
@@BassGuitar4lifehow do they work sir
@@BassGuitar4life Apparently you also need a civics class. General William T. Sherman DID promise some freed slaves plots of land of no more than 40 acres. Read Special Field Order No. 15. Abraham Lincoln was in agreement, but was not re-elected. Andrew Johnson, the next President, reneged.
@@leftway5282 Oh child. Military authority is subservient to civilian authority.
Now go read about the history of the field order (40 acres and a mule stupidity) and get back to everyone.
They chose Chuck Todd .Wow
This is nonsense! Reparations? Oh yeah, I am Mexican and I want reparations for the atrocities that the Spanish did during the conquest.
If you feel strongly about your people's suffering, than definitely create a coalition or join current organization and go for it. Who is stopping you?
Sounds like you have a claim with Spain. Good luck with that , Chico!
Did you miss the bit where he called it nonsense? He is 100% correct.
@@clmclmn21exactly everything he said was nonsense. Why are you coming here to complain. Mind your own business
Get in line I will support you
Reparations are not going to happen. Floating it like it’s actual idea only serves to make more than half the country mad, and makes them turn off to hearing any other requests or arguments. By pushing for this you are shooting yourselves in the foot. It might sound fine in certain circles, but more broadly, even on the left, it’s a non-starter.
Ending slavery and getting civil rights made more than half the country mad, and we got it done ANYWAY. The white majority will always be on the immoral side of history. We don't care about your racist feelings.
Who cares about anti-Black racist people being mad. This is about the debt that is owed. The self-absorption is astounding.
It is going to happen. Alot of people thought the same way you do before enslaved people were freed.
I live in California. It’s already been promised. If black people asked for equity based on what most white American wants, black people would still be living in 80% poverty, educated by inferior outdated text books, and legally banned from voting in the segregated South.
This isn't a popularity contest. This is business. The half of the country who'll "get mad" @ us FBA demanding Reparations can take a hike.
REALLY? Instead of finding Black People to present FACTS to back up why cash payment reparation is important, you find 2 immigrants to speak on it. OF COURSE, they're going to be against it, they're not qualified to get reparations.
Thats what they do. Just glad that black ppl are finally seeing that their playbook is limited.
Just 3 Words ...." CUT THE ✂️ CHECK 💰
Get a job mookie
@@marohan I have One and My Own Business
@@davidmitchell4092 wow. N a systematically racist country. Anyone can do it.
Money is not the solution
When the checks are being dispersed, make sure that i receive this guys check!! He's so out of touch with black America 🇺🇸. Reparations are due! Let my people go, Pharoah!!
#MoreStudies
Reparations were "due" for world war 1 and were the cause of world war 2...
Simple question but why is nobody asking for reparations from the people that actually enslaved these people and sold them into the slave trade, I find it strange that this is never mentioned and black African Americans seem to just accept and are even proud of their African brothers whose ancestors enslaved them in the first place, It is odd when you think about it particularly with the amount of hatred towards whites for simply being white.
Why is there never any mention of reparations for the direct descendants of the white people that fought in the civil war to end slavery particularly those that were killed for the cause and why don't Black Americans love these same decedents instead of thinking that they are the enemy
Lost of blacks were kidnapped by the Portuguese and Spanish. All of us weren’t sold by Africans.
No money in it, those that sold the people in AFRICA they don't want that they want the US that's where the money is and they don't want to work lol
Thank you, you are spot on.
Too funny NO MONEY IN IT FOR THEM lol it would mean going to Africa !! what was the LAST country to stop slavery??? SURPRISE lol
@dorothywashington In what world would someone pay for what they haven't done to people that it wasn't done to.
The people you want to pay are the decedents of those that fought and died for freedom.
Reparations are a joke and making a division and by the way check your history those Africans that had been enslaving other Africans for hundreds of years before a white man had even seen Africa knew exactly what they were doing, guess they just wanted a bit of money for nothing, ring any bells ??????
Reparations should’ve been paid to Black Americans decades ago. Because the anti Black American racism was so vicious when payment should’ve been paid we are at this point.
African Jewish communists blm behind slavery
No. No slaves alive today and no slave owners alive today. It would be the innocent paying money to someone who has had no crime committed against them. Totally ludicrous.
Reparations was paid to japan reparations was paid to victims indirect victims and and victims descendents if that can happen why can't they pay blacks reparations
It’s called tables, and they turn ⭕️.
Jesus turned tables 👁️ ⚖️
@@Keys-gj1yi i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
@@Keys-gj1yi
I'm not paying a dime to anyone crying about something they never went through.
You forgot to add we still have sun down towns with those apologies from states in the south
Yea
You can't spend an apology.
They speak with forked tongue and diseased with wetiko.
Pay the debt
@@waynebaker5720 Where do I send you a postcard with me a Middle Finger emoji?
Nobody owes you an apology
Sundown towns will get their due!
Who's fault that the opportunity was missed? The pain and suffering of slavery are still alive and did not end in 1865. Get a grip on yourself.
I hate how they always set us up to be divided. If the young man thinks he doesn't need or want what we as a people are owed he can just leave it on the table!!! More for the rest of us.
Stop being a bum and go to work. Look how thirsty you are for that money.
He is an immigrant who hates Foundational Black Americans.
@@lazycoconut6150 its deserved
How are we supposed black people supposed to unify when you cant even tell who is black? Coleman Hughes is a hispanic person he is NOT a descendent of American Chattel Slavery. There is NOT a divide because he is not one of us. Be smarter than this. A simple google search would have told you this.
@@sageex3931Evil ideas.
Your talking about a social credit score that needs to include DNA, ancestory and lists of other criteria to asign reperations, educational priority and diversity hiring.
Disgusting.
I think we should give black people everything, and i mean everything, all the gold, the water, the air, the soil, the birds, everything.
LOL!!!!!!!!
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Well it was our labor used to dig those resources out of the ground. So I dont disagree with you.
@@brucesmith1754 thank u friend!
@@michael-4k4000 We deserve it ALL!!
The native Americans deserve compensation and an apology the most.
I'm filling racist cause everytime I post this TH-cam takes it down.
You know many blacks have been saying that they are native black Americans now😅
They've been saying that they were here first
they aren't actually native,,they came from asia,,look it up,,
They came 15,000+ years ago so they have had time to become genetically different than asian.
@@Kensei8989 ,probably Mexican, Asian, and Neanderthals..
The only thing worse than those who were enslaved and never got paid, are the people who never suffered, who try to profit off of them.
slaves are not supposed to get paid !! thats what " slave : means !! and the people who are asking for reparations are the ones benefiting from slavery!
The dumbest comment ever lol!! We might as well pass a bill to eliminate nepotism and passing inheritance down to those who are born into wealthy families since they were not alive when the wealth was created
Facts
It's always a krakka lurking in the comments
It’s called being limited and lazy af
Slavery DID NOT end in 1865. It went well in to the 1900's!
It still exists today in the form of traff*cking and child slave labor.
Slavery capitalism colonialism Jewish creation
Sure give them reparations, then send a bill for all the damage caused during protesting.
Black people weren't part of January 6 failed insurrection. But yes, reparations should be given for a debt still owed.
@@KL-cy1wcjanuary 6 would be a joke compared to all the riots from many other protests you people pretend never happened. However you want reparations for your ancestors pain and suffering? Im sure they'll roll over in their graves about that but heres how you can get it go see your relatives in africa because slaves were first sold by their own people in Africa because they were that poor. Or you could always pay yourself
That's what insurance is for..
@@KL-cy1wc The leader of the Proud Boys is Black.
@@KL-cy1wc Weird how you people always bring up Jan 6th when the blm riots were the MOST damaging riots in US history. There's places that still haven't recovered and probably never will. Over 3 billion dollars in damages.
The survey result surely show what you would expect.
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America.
NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News.
These people have no shame (or dignity).
Whites are against REPARATIONS because if would even the playing field. And everyone knows that they would´t make it on an even playing field.
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Yea a bunch of lazy black people wanting handouts for something they have never experienced
Never judge children for the sins of their parents….
The children is living off of what the parents did 😂😂😂
@@Chief-et6xk majority of non-color Americans in the United States today majority of their families come from Europe after slavery was abolished that’s why majority of white Americans can trace the roots to Italians, Irish, and so on…. Modern African-Americans today were never slaves. They don’t deserve a dime from those who never own slaves.
That phrase comes from the Bible which is the book that Europeans used to justify and convince itself of their right to commit genocide and uphold slavery of human beings...
@@ninobrown724 so the lynching museum for black people are lying look it up it's all truth and there
@@ninobrown724 it's a debt not a handout get it right before you speak fool
There is no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity big dog😢
If so then there’s thousands of years of reparations gonna be needed😂 Moses gonna be suing the Egyptians for all that slavery in the Bible real quick
Funny you mention that @@trentbateman
The Consitution was written in 1776 and their descendents are still following this document in 2023! I guess Coleman hasn't heard of the Seminole War, and Rosewood. Many of the descendents received Reparations!
Don't forget the stwaling of lands and the lynchings that took place!!
@@GodfreyTaiOyYong Yes, add this to the missing information list!
It doesn't matter what he says because he doesn't qualify.
@@latonyanewsome0 A TRUE TING!!
@@ninobrown724 Make it make sense!
Buying a house has sucked since 2019 and it’s only gotten worse. What’s normal about home prices increasing by 40% over 48 months?
The American dollar isn't backed by the gold standard any more, it's based on housing mortgages.
They're getting dealt like stocks on the American stock market, another financial concept that should
never have become a reality. What high finance did in 2008 has filtered down to residential housing.
All Americans should have worried when they were told they didn't have to pay rent in the pandemic.
I guess we could say that about the prices of anything now a days, ever since Covid and the shut downs the prices are on steady up climb, I’ve started taking pictures of the prices I pay so I can compare from week to week. Getting really hard to be retired on a fixed income. It’s all just big buisness, the banks going under, the over building of homes and banks lending to people that down understand a mortgage or lending practices and in 24 months or less they see they can’t afford it. Moderation america, people it’s a matter of supply and demand, don’t buy what you don’t need, change expensive habits, use and reuse what you have, don’t be wasteful and it will help your dollars and lower big business million and billionaire take home pays.
Sadly, the "normal" involved is boundless greed and corrupted government that is providing "oversight" of greedy corporations. These specific aspects of that come to mind: Companies have been underpaying for assets taken from public lands ... legally "stealing" from taxpayers when, in fact, much more of the profits from use of public assets should be used to pay government expenses.
More recently it has become even more obvious than ever that fuel companies have been price gouging, with increased fuel charges having a domino effect on prices across the entire economy resulting in inflation.
Businesses have "unions" (though, generally they oppose for workers) ... it's just that business "unions" are called "trade associations" instead. This includes financial institutions. Banks, that get money from the supposed government/private "partnership" of "the Fed" at a very nominal interest rate meet to CHOOSE to inflate their profit, gouging individual and business consumers and increasing the inflation.
Monopoly and near monopoly. The greediest of the wealthiest pursue monopoly because controlling supply enables the control of pricing.
The ever widening economic gap will continue to grow ever wider unless and until the wealthy cease to be able to use their wealth as political power to write the economic laws and commerce rules that keep that our corrupted capitalism self serving for the rich.
It's not just the cost of the house in reality. The real issue and the one everyone ought be angry about is the amortization scheme that applies to homes. The one thing we need most, scammed by the loan sharks. ...and the...gubment, let's it happen and encourages it for the sake of business and tax money.
It's as if they really don't want to BUILD up the country, nor it's people. Just a percentage.
They printed trillions of dollars during covid depreciation of the dollar
Every other culture got reparations but they deny the people who built this country and was treated the worse. 😢
Irish were slaves for years we got nothing but taxes so we could pay for social programs for blacks for 50 years .... let that sink in!
There is no statute of limitations for murder. Only when that promise is fulfilled uninterrupted it doesnt matter how long ago it happened. It still happened and was never repaired. There children benefited back then and some still today from the works of slavery which they are trying to continue with prisons system.
And I’m the tooth fairy.
People don't see this unfortunately.
@ninobrown724 You must be speaking for yourself. Never is a strong word. Have you ever heard of modern day slavery? I agree with you that yes we need to work like everyone else. But even that statement is easier said than done. Because 9 times out of 10 you are going to work for? Who is your boss right now that hired you. As far as never owning slaves is the narrative they try to push. It's been swept so far under the rug ever since. It's like a game of Monopoly. You start off with a few 500 dollar bills and a few 100 dollar bills to get you started in this game of life. But for Black's in America the majority never got to start off with any money and was forced to roll the dice anyway and landed on go directly to jail. No inheritance. Yes there are a few who made it but that percentage of the overall majority is very small. Their are other nations of people who have received reparations. Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule and where did that end up going? You can't honestly sit here and say that white people haven't benefited with a wild head start from slavery which even after the emancipation proclamation was passed slavery took on a new form in the prison systems. Why do you think there was a Civil Rights movement in the 1st place? It never got repaired. They gave welfare programs and made people dependent on the government instead of setting them up to be self sustainable. Now I'm not saying slavery is like the way it was before but if you don't understand the new form it took then maybe that's something you should check into.
@@ninobrown724 well then by your logic why should young Jews still get reparations even tho they never experienced the holocaust?also white Americans won't be paying the reparations
Not only with the prison system, but, many other tactics been, and being practiced long before we and many ancestors were born. They are masters of many types of manipulations. But, God is bigger than these people and their even schemes and plans. 🙏.
Oh shocking, you’re telling me the people who will benefit from that money are all in for it? That’s wild.
Yeah the people that have been damaged.
It's not wild for any other racial group besides African-Americans?
Coleman Cruz Hughes (Born: 1996) is a child and has no real idea about discrimination in America. If his parents grew up in America then they would have a deeper understanding of what is discrimination in this country.
He’s also a grifter that found a way to profit from whites off of trading on race
No surprise with the polls at all; most Americans were against slavery ending also. 👁
Slavery origins Jewish like colonialism capitalism
If youre African American, as in Black American, and YOU do NOT want reparations... THEN DO NOT ACCEPT THEM! The rest of us WILL GLADLY accept them.
Also, what does this guys mean by, "What do reparations look like in today's 21st century?"
Like bruh, what do you mean? Money. OBVIOUSLY MONEY!
Reparations comes in many forms not just money, "bruh"
As a White brother I don't think your gonna get it. Maybe African cheiftains have some cash for you? Or Liberia has a spot for you? I dunno man. You got good streets, a roof, a cellphone, university, library's, good public transport, jobs, comedy clubs, a decent multiculturalism going down? Stop thinking about being black all the fuggin time? It's driving you racist crazy lol
Us vietnamese dont even get reparations, what make yall ni think you’re qualified
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 OK SO WHAT ELSE DO THEY LOOK LIKE
@@coffeecup369 government investment infrastructure for predominantly black communities
Bringing Coleman Hughes on clearly shows this isn't a serious discussion.
As if there is one on reparations.
As a white male, I want reparations from the black people who stole my bike when I was 9
@@Snowstorm1200 If it had happened less than two years ago you could have sued and got your reparations.. But let’s be clear, what if they not only stole your bike but stole your entire family, sold them into slavery and you never saw them again.. Now, that’s something to hold onto…
@@Naesman1167that's ridiculous...you never experienced this...😂...you witnessed nothing ...were not damaged only live in freedom... sorry...I'd go get a better income ..
On death bed you might regret a lifetime of waiting for a govt handout..😂
Par for course .buncha losers ..
@@HERMETICSUBROSA You mean like the one you’ll be getting at 65 or 67? What about the handout to send your kids to school? What about the appropriations for project funding in your district to make fHsure you and yours have a place to live? FHA subsidy’s, handouts.. You’ve been taking handouts all your life.. Do whine to the Federal Government about the billions they send to Israel or Pakistan, or places like Urkraine.. You don’t believe in handouts right?
Better then giving money to illegals or foreign countries
No
@@ClarkKent-tg6ls love an honest white supremacist. I wish more of you would come out into the open.
Apologies weren't enough for the Holocaust, it wasn't enough for the atomic bombings, Japanese interment, and it won't be enough for African-American people who have been made to suffer inhuman treatment for the past 400+ years in the western society. Even slave owners were given reparations during reconstruction. I find that Coleman Hughes doesn't have a coherent argument to make about Black people not getting much of anything. I sincerely believe that every black man or woman that thinks reparations shouldn't be paid should have to register a federal document in which reparations will NOT nor ever be paid to themselves, their children, grandchildren, and lineage and that money is to be split amongst those African-Americans that DO believe in reparations. That solves this whole question of who should get and should NOT get.
The first question should be, we're slaves owed repairations for their enslavement. If the answer is yes and they never received it, then that compensation should be made to their descendents. If not, then please explain why.
Because too much time has passed, and a great proportion of black people today can't trace their ancestry to a specific documented slave due to things like lost records, broken families, abandoned children, the foster care system.
The answer is No. That’s that.
@@ninadaly7639Your money is mine.
No, they should be thankful that they were sold to the US as slaves. For those who weren't as lucky, they remained slaves to other African tribes.
@@ninadaly7639 answer is yes
YOURE NOT PAYING REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY YOURE PAYING REPARATIONS BECAUSE YOU OWE IT
Slavery origins Jewish not European southern. They owe you nothing. African Jewish communists had slaves they owe you
Nah, ain’t paying anything
If there's still a former slave out there then that person deserves reparations for having endured slavery. However all former slaves are long dead. Just as their spouses & children. The current generation can't claim to be a victim of and have suffered damages due to something that ended many generations ago. Claiming that is woke nonsense.
Every other racial/ethnic group that have been victims of atrocities has been compensated for their pain. Why can't Black Americans? It's not BA fault that the government waited 1,000,000 years to address the issue.
I really would like to know what tangible benefits would encompass reparations that’s different from food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, free phones, free housing, heating assistance, furniture vouchers, free transit, free clothing, free education, free programs, and everything else you get when you’re living off the system.
You talking like Black people are the only ones who benefit from all the programs you just mentioned
@@wilburgordon7606 I have learned, that they will not try putting nor doing anything beneficial for us if it does not benefit them...not all of them, but, perhaps most of them to say the least.
They just want cash in their pocket don’t get it twisted
@@FirstLast-dy4gt That's exactly why the Rednecks kidnapped my people and brought them over here, and to other places, against their wills, ...For CASH...nothing but satanic.
Not to mention the rapes and other inhumane treatments of our fathers, mothers, and children.
Put up or shut up clueless ones
40 acres and a mule if that was given it don’t you think we wouldn’t be having this discussion
President Reagan, in 1988, issued a formal apology for Ex. order 9066, and paid reparations to surviving Japanese Americans….President Clinton, in 1993, formally apologized for the US role in overthrowing the Royal Monarchy of Hawaii. (1893)
No other group in America has had genocide, like black Americans! Slave owners were given reparations, because they were loosing their free labor!
Let's start after slavery, no voting rights, lynching, Jim Crow, discriminated in education, health, and housing, towns flooded, burned and bomb! These things took place and still going on!
Jews, Japanese, Indians, Israel still get reparations, and no one says anything about that.
Your tax money goes to ALL of those, and it cost BILLIONS with my tax money! I don't want my money going to those groups either! Don't want an apology, cut the check, like the Government do for those other groups!!
Reagan shouldn't have done that. But at least it was a payment to victims, not a racial group.
ONLY if they pay the Indians for their slavery, torture, genocide, and theft of their land first!
@@kevindrosario Reparations is not just about slavery.
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America.
NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News.
These people have no shame (or dignity).
YES ON REPARATIONS FOR BLACKS❗NO MONEY FOR GENOCIDE❗
Everyone must be held accountable except them, They gave slave owners $300 for every slave they had to free. Yet the people who were actually enslaved were given nothing. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
DESCENTENTS OF SLAVES HAVE THE EXACT SAME RIGHTS AS ASIANS OR WHITES ETC !! THEY CAN DO EVERYTHING AN ASIAN MAN WHO COMES HERE CAN DO !! LAZYNESS DOESNT JUSTIFY HANDOUTS !!
Statue of limitation for a crime is a double standard since there is a thing called a “RECORD !” Which means that people are held accountable for their crimes/actions centuries after they initially claimed another story
@@ninobrown724 30% of the people want to pay reparations according to the video.Problem solved. Let the 30% pay it
@@ninobrown724 free! Dude u couldn’t be serious, more like past due broski
THEY DON'T WANT THAT LOL THEY WANT $$$$$$$$$$$$ SO WHY THE US?? $$$$ NOT THAT THEY WOULD GO AFTER THOSE THAT SOLD THEM LOL AFRICAN BASED !! IT'S ALL A JOKE
exactly ! move on !! i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
@@salamjihad3449But you have to think! The oppression didn’t end at slavery!! We as black people have been racially discriminated against any numerous ways since forever. So do some research before you try to "embarrass “ or talk down on a group of people dealing with a traumatic issue.
Why are we still talking about reparations? Couldn’t we just have every state creat a “Reparations Task Force” and let them “talk about it” for the next 20 years so we don’t have to. Reparations ain’t gonna happen.
That’s the goal… keep talking about it until it’s so far out whites will actually be able to say no one lived during times of legalized racial inequity.
My parents were children in the degraded South and it most certainly determined the path of their life, my life, and their young grandchildren’s lives.
You got to think pos
Tell me @ninadaly7639, WHY DIDN´T YOU PROTEST AGAINST THOSE OTHER GROUPS THAT RECEIVED REPARTIONS FOR WW2 AND THE NATIVE INDIANS. Repartions ain´t gonna happen? Scared that if it does, and it will, you will have to compete and pull yourself up by your own boot straps to make a living instead of having everything given to you and stop living off YOUR SYSTEM who you get your PRIVILEDGES and PROTECTING FROM THE LAWS DUE TO SKIN COLOR? Go back to sleep or better yet KICK ROCKS.
Asking the same man who oppressed you for help is insanity
Our family came to USA with about $80 in 1980’s and now we make our living here. You tell me we will have to give money some other people for what happened to their ancestors 300 years ago… No!
# NO REPARATIONS # NO VOTE
I was born in arkansas in 1959 and jim crow was very much alive and enforced in my home town of helena, arkansas, one can never forget things like stepping iff side walks when whites were passing through, no eye contact with whites especially white women, being called various animal names, white babies pulling up your shirt tail because their parents told them we had tails.
Sorry that u had to go through that. That sucks.
I feel bad that you went through that. You are someone who actually does deserve to be compensated for Jim Crow laws since you actually lived through them. People now a days think they have it bad but really the system actually doesn’t favor anyone. It favors those who work hard. I’m glad you are out of that.
Lenox just no lol
Why is this even a "debate"? Anyone that thinks they deserve reparations is 100% completely delusional and you should be filled with shame.
Explain how? Native Americans get reparations so why can’t blacks? Huh
I just want the dollar amount of 40 acres & and a John Deere in my State. & that’s how reparations should be paid to all descendants of slaves. 💯✊🏾
40 acres and a tractor, truck and automobiles or a $50,000 stipend.
So you want to profit off the suffering of others? Typical black supremacist
@@ninobrown724 fact yu right I probably don’t but I can probably bet your great great grandfather burned down the city my people was in where they don’t have any documentation of who they are so they can’t get the money out the bank meanwhile your family can get loans wit my people money so yeah yall owe & I work hard out here didn’t nobody leave me nothing & I’m not saying all Europeans are bad people but they did genocide an group of people just for land
@@ninobrown724 every other race or color of people get reparations except the BLACKS OR AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM USA so who really wrong when the police still shooting us and we unarmed in our bed sleep yea USA owe us it’s Hard for a black to get a loan. an European credit score is 750 at the age of 2. Meanwhile I’m being raised in an environment where the rent $25 & people getting shot every night as an kid & yu being raised on a farm yea America 🇺🇸 owe me
@@ninobrown724 look at the history of the way we was treated and you don’t think that is wrong. The USA paid Japan for the bombing they did to them & still paying for it. They paid Iraq 🇮🇶 for the destruction we did to them. I’m not saying you should pay me anything & yes I pay taxes & has an business & yes I do need my reparation from the USA because the euros are wrong for what they did now just pay for it mfs been waiting for years for it but the pentagon can send 6.4 billion to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when that’s the 4th check Biden sent to them. But we can’t get reparations. When Yu kno it’s gonna help the economy cause most of us is stupid and gonna go get a Cadillac instead of CREDIT so just let it fall through. Ukraine 🇺🇦 ain’t did nothing for USA 🇺🇸 REMEMBER THEY WAS PART OF USSR
Im sorry for the way their families arrived here and were treated before and after the civil war... If your going to go for reparations, then go after the people who were the slave owners.... Not just any white folks ... Just because youve decided your owed... Many Blacks also had slaves and it was oyther africans that captured the progenerators of those familes whose beginnings here in america 4:29 were slaves... Further America wasnt the only country that had slaves and many European countries continued to have slaves after 1865, hidden in the jungles of South America... So where would you cut off the reparations...
So basically you're denying accountability for all those involved
@@scinnyc No Fool I'm denying blaming those families That had NOTHING to do with it... Blaming a whole country and race for something only a few were involved in is the same nasty habit of. RACISM, and Racial Profiling or for that matter STEREOTYPING a whole group for a few bad apples.
I was removed from my job at HACLA because someone decided to give it to a younger white woman. That not only impacted my lifestyle while I workef but also my returement. It was common knowledge that I did my job extremely well while the white woman's only qualification was her skin. I was forced to leave California when I retired because my pension would not allow me to survive there. That's only one example of how I have been treated because of my heritage. I deserve reparations from the government, not some individual white persons who have no problems with giving Ukrainians billions and who never complained about giving housing vouchers and Social Security checks to russian jews living in west LA and beverly hills. Their handicap: they didn't speak english. If you can give billions to Ukrainians and others, you can give me and mine millions. Look how much is being spent on illegal aliens in NYC today. The stupid hatred of my skin is enough to justify reparations. That hatred has been used to deny us housing, jobs and freedom. I sat in.the court room watching Harold C Brown find EVERY Black person who appeared before him guilty while exonerating every white boy, even one who admitted he was guilty.
@@scinnyc LOL...They are dead what more do you want!
@@marianlincoln9008 😆🤔How am I a fool? The U.S. government was 💯% complicit in slavery, not just individual slave owners. The European countries that owned slaves in the Caribbean, South and Central America should pay reparations too. They sure had zero problem giving slave owners their reparations after the Civil War. Yes, many countries had slavery. But how many countries had slaves that helped build the most powerful nation on Earth without getting so much as a dime, while their descendents still faced unfair laws and policies for over a century afterwards as well as persecution until this very day?
This poll proves the US is a WS nation. We give billions in unearned reparations to Israel every year due to the actions of some other nation, but can't make whole the descendants of those whose "free" labor built this country. Reparations are owed to all ADOS!
80% of White Americans oppose reparations! I’m shocked 🙄🙄
This is where we go wrong… there is no reason to even debate this on national television. This displays our weakness as a people. We need to learn about optics.
You mean, sweep it under the carpet😅😅😅
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
@@zaidabuffkins6149 I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
My DNA is part English, part Irish, part Nigerian, part North African, part Iberian, part Baltic, part Finnish, and part East European. I'm going to owe myself a heck of a lot of reparations if this idiocy is followed to it's illogical conclusion.
Don't worry, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will be able to loan you the money to yourself... for a fee.
But were your ancestors slaves in the US, that's the real situation. We're talking lineage not DNA
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?@@salaam4771
We dont care wht you going through that's yo problem
EXACTLY !!! WE CANT TAKE TAXPAYERS MONEY BECAUSE SOME BLACK PEOPLE WAS RELATED TO A SLAVE 200 YEARS AGO !!!@@maniackmack1590
If we held previous generations accountable for all atrocities against all people, not many societies would be free from debt. As far as equity, both of my parents' families were immigrants in the early 1900s. My wife's family was mostly from Germany and arrived between the mid 1600s and 1900. Some were indentured servants in the slums of NY. None had anything to do with slavery. Some of her relatives also died in the Civil War - fighting for the North. Why should any of my taxes or my children's taxes go to pay for repirations, when we had nothing whatsoever to do with it and even lost family to help end the worst of the atrocities towards Black people? What about people of color who immigrated here after the fact? Does an immigrant from Upper Volta get reparations? If we go back to Native Americans, the Lakota killed off most of the Pawnee... should members of the Lakota tribe be found to pay reparatoins to the ancestors of the Pawnee tribe?
Yeah, it's a impossible "policy" to implement. It's only here to divide, and is probably the singular issue that the GOP can win on if the Dems take the bait and run with it. Chuck Todd is a very sketchy individual for having this debate on his show.
It’s devastating when reviewing the comment section. History that you learned in school was sugar coated. Slavery did not end in 1865. I’m from Louisiana and my family is from a rural area. No one told them they were free in 1865. We have countless stories that are documented of African Americans in rural areas that were still in modern day slavery. Slavery was not abolished it was redesigned. So it’s sad when you see comments telling some in to get over it. This shows how out of touch people are of the affects slavery did. My great grandmother who told me her stories, worked on a plantation. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mom went to segregated schools. I have heard countless stories of how they were treated less than animals. I’m amazed how resilient black people are.
WE NORTHERN STATES WILL NOT PAY REPARATIONS! we had no slavery and sacrificed our lives to end it
Uh….You had segregation…
@@Ashley10E what? No I didn't. Segregation was only in the South in the years AFTER the Civil War.
States like Vermont outlawed slavery 10 years before they even joined the U.S. & signed the Constitution in 1789.
Prove it.
Anyway what do you think Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was about?
@@c.rutherfordThe opinions of the descendants of plantation owners are irrelevant less repossess the possessions that originated from the plantation a****** You're against that too I'm sure!
The best form of reparations is sound economic, social and educational policies of which African-Americans will be beneficiaries.
The best form of payment to a slave owner for their slaves labor was MONEY…not economic or social or educational policies. So, in that spirit…pay Black American descendants of enslaved persons the MONEY they’re owed.
@@daddy9925 Agree 100%!!
Did you say that to the Japanese, Jews, Native Americans, Guamanians??? No, just American Descendants of Slavery.
Agree 100.0%. Give them an opportunity to better themselves over a lifetime.
@@sistahb5159hey already got reparations.
>Natives have special zones
>Jews got a safe community with no red lining from professions
>Japanese were paid by Reagan
Are they seeking reparation from the african chiefs that sold them.
Yep
Or from the Arab & Barbary slave trade (schools never taught this)
We don’t give af about an apology cut the check 🇺🇸
0:18 ofc they would be supported by the black community. They’re the only ones who would get the reparations 😂😂😂 what about the Ireland people who were sold to the 13 colonies. Or what about the European men/woman sold to South Africa. If you pay 1 race, you gotta pay them all ❤️
Every society is history, including African ones, used slavery for thousands of years. European societies were the first in history to morally oppose slavery and abolish it in their own nations. We cannot tear ourselves apart trying to relitigate what happened in the past and we cannot continue acting like one group of Americans is inherently more guilty than the others. Reparations was paid in the blood of the hundreds of thousands of European Americans who died to free the slaves in this country and make it one of the first anti-slavery nations in human history
No, European societies were not the first to morally oppose slavery. Complete nonsense. Many societies globally did so independently, including African ones. Even during the slave trade there were ethnicities that refused to engage morally.
BLACK AMERICANS ENDURED SYSTEMIC SLAVERY UNTIL THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, AND BLACK AMERICANS FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR AND ALL WORLD WARS ALSO, THE DIFFERENCE IS, THEY WERE TREATED LESS THAN GARBAGE....PAY UP
Why is Coleman Cruz/ Hughes being given a platform to speak on Reparations? He isn't FBA. MTP needs to speak to people like TBA, Prof. Black Truth, Rizza Islam & Vicki Dillard about this. Bet you they won't.
What difference would it make? We’ve all heard the overused platitudes and cliches to the point of becoming nauseous. No need to hear it again.
@@ninadaly7639wth are you talking about
If you follow the black media , then why are you asking this question. You should know why they are doing it already.
@brucesmith1754 I know MSM has it's Black 👢 👅 ready to push the anti cash-payout narrative.
I truly believe if reparations are paid out there will be heavy strings attached that blk folks are not ready for
If they did get reparations, what happens when they blow through it. They'll want more
@@Dan-lr2feworry about your people
@@ancientofdays9737 We worry about them every day bc of street crime.
@@margaretnorvell9555 they ain't touching you yet we just getting warm
Like when you get your check after 40hrs worked. Wtfyta?
Nobody is asking millions of Latinos, Asians, Europeans that had no ancestors who had slaves, but will be paying for those reoperations as taxpayers!
Yes. Us African Americans should get paid reparations for slavery, & over 400 years of oppression in "Amerikkka".
genius guy slavery happened in every culture, i am white and my people were enslaved by muslims... am i getting reparations from them now?
If you black and dont want REPARATIONS then speak for yourself
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP !!
No you don't
YES I DO !! NO WELL BROUGHT UP PERSON WILL ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLES HARD EARNED TAX MONEY JUST BECAUSE SOME OF OUR RELATIVES WERE SLAVES !! HOW MUCH LOWER CAN WE GET !!!?? @@Randy.lorenzo
Oh black folks are ridiculous. You never went through anything in those day in time.
You don't speak for me
They need to pay what they owe like they did every one else get tf of the internet clown
This is the problem when you let immigrants speak on issues that do not concern them.
🎯🎯🎯
If the black should get it, then the Chinese should get it too, because they were the railways worker. This will never ended, a crazy idea.
That's a good point you raised.
Did they account for more than a trillion dollars of free labor over hundreds of years?
For anyone comparing what happened to blacks with ANY other race living in America (or anywhere else in the last 300 years) show me ONE other race (in the last 300 years) that was enslaved by another race for countless generations... Show me one other example (in the last 300 years) where basically an entire race throughout the entire country was enslaved... Had their children enslaved. Their grandchildren enslaved. Their great grandchildren. Their great-great grand children....
Show me another country (again, in the last 300 years) that was 100% economically successful because of a slave race (black) while the controlling race (whites) were made the most wealthy and powerful race on the planet (which they still are today).
If you don't agree with reparations... That's fine... But comparing the enslavement of blacks with what happened to the Irish, Chinese, your granddad, or anyone else, is disingenuous af... I'd even argue that African Americans got it worse than Native Americans...
Native Americans: Wrecked by disease, followed by a pretty one sided "war" with the whites, that they ultimately lost. Followed by the stealing of all of their lands, followed by their placement into reservations. Followed by... Wait for it... Reparations...
Flash forward to today. The country is still ruled by white men, but... They LOVE Native Americans. White people can't wait to tell you how they're part (insert tribe here).
Compare that to being a slave your entire life AND knowing that your children (and all your descendants for hundreds of years) will also be slaves (you are also forced to breed)... Then fast forward to today where a large percentage of the people who run this country (still white men ofc) secretly, or openly in the comment section, hate you.. Imho, it's not even close who got it worse.
The Chinese really don't deserve anything because 1: no one told them to come here and 2: they actually got paid. They easily could've just stayed in China. African slaves on the other hand were forced to come here and work for free
Chinese haven’t fought in every war the country has had. When P Harbor was attacked that was Asian people doing it. When did blacks attack the country by planes and bombs?? Never and still they were hung and put in trees no matter how much racist don’t wanna pay they’re gonna pay one way or the other kick the can down to the next generation. If your alive in 25 years from now your gonna see a bill being passed for reparations because blacks and Latinos will have the majority scientists say by 2050 America is no longer majority white if you think what let’s say 150 million people to 175 million people aren’t gonna have the power to make it happen your highly mistaken. That’s gonna get passed so fast like a budget bill. Kicking it down the line not addressing it now will force them to do it. You can bet on it.
The one black guy just looking for those buttery biscuits smh
you can butter my biscuit sunshine !!!
Pay now or later the matter won't go away.
Keep waiting for that check pookie. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It has now.
We don’t care how you feel pay what you owe an stop letting immigrants speak for foundational black Americans this game ends now
we all know we dont deserve anything !!
The hustle is in the question. Though I believe you can, one doesn't have to go back to slavery to make the case for reparations. Just look at the constitutional violations in the 40's, 50', 60's that robbed Blacks of generational wealth, spawned the street gang culture that's pervasive in low-income Black neighborhoods, etc. All you have to do is read The Color of Law (also available as an audio book) to learn why reparations are deserved.
My family was murdered every generation through no fault of their own. my grandpa and great grandma were murdered in 1990
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
His people must have not been slaves!
The answer is no. No reparations for you!
Millions of black Americans would have to pay reparations as well since there were 3000+ black slave owners in early America, cut to 1800s there'd be tens of thousands..if any of your ancestors benefited you'll pay too, LaVar Burton, Sonny Hostin ect. Reparations will never happen because that would be discrimination against people who never hurt anyone..and don't say the government will pay because that would end up being taxpayers.
Government sends billions of dollars yearly to Ukraine and Israel. Reperations would cost less than that. There’s really no argument against reperations except jealousy
Reparation looks exactly like if the tables was reverse what would they want & to the highest Audit Scrutiny possible.
They gave Ukraine billions with no Scrutiny.
It's a comment under here that I can't read but I see it's a comment: I wonder if it's a racist comment, I bet it is.
@@ThaMidwestBrutha You don't deserve 40oz. and a Kool, and y'all better be happy with getting NIENTE!
@@ThaMidwestBrutha Nobody reported anything, ragazza!
IT DONT MATTER WHAT YALL THINK THE ALMIGHTY GOD IS GOING TO RECOMPENSE FOR HIS PEOPLE. PERIODT‼️👏🏾👏🏾
He sure is that’s why all these talks and, studies are taking place. America must atone for one of its original sins of slavery through reparations & in different forms of compensation. They’re going to fight it tooth and, nail but I’m afraid it’s out of their hands!
More studies please!
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
It's a nice "high school debate class" topic. Personally, I can't wait until it's a college level debate class" topic titled, "Could you have survived the 20th century?"
U look sick
@@marvin469 Doc says fuggetaboutit
thanks for contributing absolutely nothing of significance 😊
@@ushireborn There's not a fillip with which to concern ourselves.
Why is this even a question?
Because the U.S is run by white supemacists and inhabited by white supremacists sympathizers.
I will vote against any politician I can who supports this foolishness. Even if that means voting for Republicans for the first time in my life.
Same here.
Agreed
We as a people have to constantly stand in front of the unjust judges of our nation and stand and stand and fight and fight in the court room , on our knees, day in day out to get those things that belong to us. Those who do not want their reparations send your check back to Uncle Sam when it comes but me I want mine.
what planet are you living in !! we have all the same laws and opportunities as any other American. we can all go to school and become whatever we want..if we work for it,,why should we deserve other Americans' tax money who had nothing to do with it? just as we had nothing to do with it? if someone won't hire you because you are black then take it up with the proper authorities as any other race would do! there are laws put in place for that, we are living in the 1800s son !!
How many courtrooms have you been on your knees in? You just want money you didn’t earn and don’t deserve. You didn’t suffer in the cotton fields but expect payment for someone else’s suffering. It’s disgusting, earn your own money.
what belongs to us is what we work for !! what we build ! what we earn !! we dont want tax payers hard earned money who are in the same situation we are in ! we wont take their money !
I SPEAK FOR EVERY BLACK PERSON WHEN I SAY STOP THIS REPARATIONS CRAP
If that ever happens, I'm investing in Hennessy, black and milds, gold, hair weaves and forgiotos!
I am 100% in support of a one-way plane or boat ticket back to Africa. Just for the fact that they were not slaves. Sorry my ancestors were not slave owners
give a man a loaf of bread or a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to bake or how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime... The same goes for money (reparations) give a person $50,000 or $100,000 and you support them for a year or two, give them the means to make that money themselves by providing school, college, equal opportunity and you thus support them for a lifetime.
🤦🏾♂️ Stupid.
Stop the excuses.
50,000 - 100,000 leads to purchasing a home, a home that would be the start of creating generational wealth.
@@TheCrucialQ Or a very large gold chain
@@TheCrucialQ Culture is and will always be the deciding factor on what one does with money.
At times I wonder how different the world would be if we never learned about slavery to begin with.
Like, if everyone had done a better job of pretending it never happened?
This is a nice thought, but slavery as servitude, whether bilaterally supported or not, has been an economic institution for centuries. Before industrialization, it would be impossible for massive civilizations to become what they were without the use of mass labor.
@@Nod.Phanus yes.
@@sicknado What do you think that might be like?
@@Nod.Phanus it would be better because they, and we, wouldn't be constantly reminded of it
Of course they should. However, the trillion of dollars, land and resources owned would only be acquired through war. The oppressor will never give it up voluntarily.
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@ninobrown724 , because the government is still the government, and they were and are still involved in the enslavement of millions of Black people to this very day. The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bans slavery or involuntary servitude, EXCEPT when it is used as punishment for a crime. Unfair sentencing and unequal distribution of resources. It's systematic, not individual based. The US owes trillions of dollars and land to Black people. We all know this.
@@ninobrown724 It’s for more than Slavery clown
If someone wrongfully convicted, you should get paid?
Reparations for what?? We gave you an inch, you took a mile. Quit your crying already!!!
Very interesting interview about the conversation of reparations.
But worth nothing
ONLY if they pay the Indians for their slavery, torture, genocide, and theft of their land first!